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Poverty Dynamics in Spain: A study of transitions in the 1990s

Cantó-Sánchez, Olga - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1996

Even if individuals care about their current economic status, they are mainly concerned about the time they remain in it (its duration). The expected duration of an economic status affects how individuals perceive it and therefore, it should modify any economic policy aiming for Social Welfare...

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Ethnic Diversity, Mobility and School Funding: Theory and Evidence From Kenya

Miguel, Ted - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1999

funding process when student mobility between schools is limited by land market imperfections, and some aspects of educational …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670783

Multiproduct Firms, Income Distribution, and Trade

Schafgans, Marcia M; Stibora, Joachim - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2014

We develop a general equilibrium model of multiproduct firms with quality differentiated goods. Households are characterized by an heterogeneous taste for the differentiated good and their income level. The use of non-homothetic preferences and vertical product differentiation (product...

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Inequality in Greece: An Analysis by Income Source

Papatheodorou, Christos - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1998

This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there...

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Static and Dynamic Poverty in Spain, 1993-2000

Martín, Elena Bárcena; Cowell, Frank A - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2006

much mobility, but most of it short-range. …

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Choosing Between Two Income Distribution Models with Contaminated Data

Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1996

Choosing between two income distribution models typically involves testing two non-tested hypotheses, that is hypotheses such that one cannot be obtained as a special or limiting case of the other. Cox (1961, 1962) proposed a classical testing procedure based on the comparison of the maximised...

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Income Distribution and Inequality in Germany: Evidence from Panel Data

Schluter, Christian - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1996

Non-parametric kernel density estimates are employed for an exploratory analysis of the distributional conseuqnces of the German tax-benefit system using GSOEP. The focuses is on the year 1991 and a detailed analysis is provided. Moreover, the anatomy of income inequality is thoroughly examined,...

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The Rise of Mass Consumption Societies

Matsuyama, Kiminori - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2000

This paper develops a model to understand mechanisms behind the rise of mass consumption societies. The development process depicted in the model follows the Flying Geese pattern, in which a series of industries takes off one after another. As productivity improves in these industries, each...

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Mobility in China

Chen, Yi; Cowell, Frank A - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2013

We examine the evidence on rank and income mobility in China during the decades immediately preceding and immediately … following the millennium using panel data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We show that rank mobility changed … markedly over the period: in this respect China is becoming markedly more rigid. By contrast income mobility has carried on …

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The Tyranny Puzzle in Welfare Economics: An empirical investigation

Fleurbaey, Marc; Cowell, Frank A; Tungodden, Bertil - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2010

We address a puzzle in welfare economics - the possibility that rational people may be simultaneously against two apparently con‡icting forms of "tyranny." In fact the two types of tyranny can be reconciled but at the possible cost of con‡ict with other standard welfare principles. We...

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