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Business Groups and the Big Push : Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth
Morck, Randall - 2007
feudal elite; withdrew its hand with a propitious mass privatization that rallied the private sector; marginalized an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465482
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Productivity Effects of TVE Privatization : The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region
Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2003
While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469077
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Inequality and Growth : What Can the Data Say?
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2000
This paper describes the correlations between inequality and the growth rates in cross-country data. Using non-parametric methods, we show that the growth rate is an inverted U-shaped function of net changes in inequality: Changes in inequality (in any direction) are associated with reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470957
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Mismatch and Assimilation
Wang, Ping - 2018
Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480613
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Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
Putterman, Louis - 2008
We construct a matrix showing the share of the year 2000 population in every country that is descended from people in different source countries in the year 1500. Using this matrix, we analyze how post-1500 migration has influenced the level of GDP per capita and within-country income inequality...
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The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1886-2002 : Evidence from Income Tax Statistics
Moriguchi, Chiaki - 2006
This paper studies the evolution of income concentration in Japan from 1886 to 2002 by constructing long-run series of top income shares and top wage income shares, using income tax statistics. We find that (1) income concentration was extremely high throughout the pre-WWII period during which...
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Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development
Persson, Torsten - 2005
The paper combines insights from the recent research programs on constitutions and economic policy, and on history, institutions and growth. Drawing on cross-sectional as well as panel data, it presents new empirical results showing that the form of democracy (rather than democracy vs....
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Australian Growth : A California Perspective
McLean, Ian W. - 2001
Examination of special cases assists understanding of the mechanics of long-run economic growth more generally. Australia and California are two economies having the rare distinction of achieving 150 years of sustained high and rising living standards for rapidly expanding populations. They are...
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Growth theories in light of the East Asian experience
Itō, Takatoshi (ed.); Krueger, Anne O. (contributor) - 1995
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The decline of Latin American economies : growth, institutions, and crises
Edwards, Sebastian (ed.) - 2007
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