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Fleshing Out the Olive? On Income Polarization in China

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has recently committed to expanding the middle-income share--moving to a less polarized "olive-shaped" distribution. Recognizing the potential trade-offs, the paper asks whether...

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Education and Income Gradients in Longevity : The Role of Policy

Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years many efforts have been made to understand if these relationships are causal and what the possible role of policy should be as a result. The evidence from various studies is ambiguous: the effects of...

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Trade Policy, Income, and Employment

Baldwin, Robert E. - 1984

Disappointing recent growth rates, the emergence of structurally unfavorable income and employment conditions, and important institutional changes in the international trading environment have caused policy officials in the advanced industrial nations to reconsider the proper mix of reactive...

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The Effects of Incomes Policies on the Frequency and Size of Wage Changes

Pencavel, John H. - 1981

Along with house rents, wages have frequently been described as the "stickiest" prices in the economy, rarely adjusted more than once a year. Because of this stickiness (which arises from the transactions costs involved in changing wages), a distinction exists between the adjustment of wages and...

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The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Shocks : Why are the 2000s So Different from the 1970s?

Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2007

We characterize the macroeconomic performance of a set of industrialized economies in the aftermath of the oil price shocks of the 1970s and of the last decade, focusing on the differences across episodes. We examine four different hypotheses for the mild effects on inflation and economic...

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Signalling, Wage Controls and Monetary Disinflation Policy

Persson, Torsten - 1989

, Argentina, Brazil, and Israel used extensive wage-price controls as part of more comprehensive disinflation programs, .often …

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Philanthropy and public policy

Dickinson, Frank G. (contributor) - 1962

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Bequests as Signals : An Explanation for the Equal Division Puzzle

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2000

In the United States, more than two-thirds of decedents with multichild families divide their estates exactly equally among their children. In contrast, intra vivos gifts are usually unequal. These findings challenge the validity of existing theories regarding the determination of...

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Testing Parental Altruism : Implications of a Dynamic Model

McGarry, Kathleen - 2000

Each year parents transfer a great deal of money to their adult children. While intuition might suggest that these transfers are altruistic and made out of concern for the well-being of the children, the fundamental prediction of the altruistic model has been decisively rejected in empirical...

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Fertility, Migration, and Altruism

Berman, Eli - 2000

intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …. Selection on altruism can explain why historically immigrant-absorbing countries like the U.S. have higher fertility than other …. Selection on altruism also implies that immigrant-absorbing regions will grow faster, or have higher per capita income, or both …

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