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Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed householdlevel data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...
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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force participation stagnated at around 18%. Using five large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240234
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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703204
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At the Lower End of the Table: Determinants of Poverty among Immigrants to Denmark and Sweden
Blume, Kræn; Gustafsson, Björn; Pedersen, Peder J.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper we study determinants of relative poverty among immigrants and natives in Denmark and Sweden during the … restricted to tied movers and refugees. We use 60 percent of the median in the distribution of equivalent disposable as poverty … line. Data comes from two large panels based on administrative data. We find that immigrants have higher poverty rates than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763876
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Interrelated Dynamics of Health and Poverty in Australia
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Cai, Lixin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514852
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Does Development Reduce Migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
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Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What potential lies in political or growth processes that raise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566487
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India's Increasing Skill Premium: Role of Demand and Supply
Azam, Mehtabul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the increase differs across age groups. The increase in wage premium has been driven mostly by younger age groups, while older age groups have not experienced any significant...
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The Added Worker Effect and the Discouraged Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia
Gong, Xiaodong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners' job losses) and the discouraged worker effect (workers withdrawing from the labour market because of failed searches) for married women in Australia, with the emphasis on the former. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529137
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The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel: Design and Research Potential
Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using one-time surveys, but continuously over a number of years. Therefore, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), KfW Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of...
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