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An Assignment Model of Knowledge Diffusion and Income Inequality
Luttmer, Erzo G. J. - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - 2014
income inequality. This paper considers a world in which those with more useful knowledge can teach those with less useful …
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Pareto-Improving Unemployment Policies
Jorg, LINGENS; Klaus, WAELDE - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005
We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases...
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
DELOGU, Marco; DOCQUIER, Frédéric; MACHADO, Joël - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital accumulation, income and inequality … 20 percent in the short-run, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality decreases … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: effi ciency and inequality e¤ects are roughly proportional …
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