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Income Transfers to the Elderly in East Asia:Testing Asian Values

Kwon, Huck-ju - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia. It tries to test whetherfamilial arrangement according to Confucian ethics, which are still takenseriously in East Asia, secures the minimum standards of living for theelderly....

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Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China

Li, Bingqin; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is …

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Multiproduct firms, income distribution, and trade

Schafgans, Marcia M. A.; Stibora, Joachim J. - 2014

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Goodness-of-Fit: An Economic Approach

Cowell, Frank A.; Flachaire, Emmanuel; Bandyopadhyay, … - London School of Economics and Political Science; Pôle …; … - 2009

Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions;goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriatein the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion based onthe EDF, an aggregation of differences in...

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An Economic Model of Household Income Dynamics,with an Application to Poverty Dynamics amongAmerican Women

Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

The rise in inequality and poverty is one of the most important economicand social issues in recent times. But in … contrast to the literature onindividual earnings inequality, there has been little work modelling (asopposed to documenting …) household income dynamics. This is largelybecause of the difficulties created by the fact that on top of the humancapital issues …

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Ideas determining convergence clubs : [incompleted]

Quah, Danny (contributor) - 1999 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Distribution free goodness-of-fit tests for linear processes

Delgado, Miguel A. (contributor); … - 2005

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Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in China, 1738-1925: in Comparison with Europe, Japan and India

Allen, Robert C.; Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Ma, Debin; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper develops data on the history of wages and prices in Beijing, Canton, Suzhou/Shanghai in China from the eighteenth century to the twentieth and compare them with leading cities in Europe, Japan and India in terms of nominal wages, the cost of living, and the standard of living. In the...

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Evolution of Living Standards and Human Capital in China in 18-20th Century: Evidences from Real Wage and Anthropometrics

Baten, Jörg; Ma, Debin; Morgan, Stephen L.; Wang, Qing - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This article mobilizes and integrates both existing and new time series data on real wages, physical heights and age-heaping to examine the long-term trend of living standards and human capital for China during the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Our findings confirm the existence of a...

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The World Economy In The 1990s: A Long Run Perspective

Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

This paper considers the 1990s in the context of long run economic growth performance. Growth in the context of this paper should be understood to comprise the growth of real living standards as well as real GDP per person. There were a number of new experiences during the decade that were...

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