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Inequality in Greece: An Analysis by Income Source

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

overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …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 …

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Taxation and Development

Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2013

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Taxation and Development

Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2013

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The Legacy of Historical Conflict Evidence from Africa

Besley, Timothy; Reynal-Querol, Marta - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012

There is a great deal of interest in the causes and consequences of conflict in Africa, one of the poorest areas of the world where only modest economic progress has been made. This paper asks whether post-colonial conflict is, at least in part, a legacy of historical conflict by examining the...

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No Margin, no Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for public service delivery

Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Jack, Kelsey - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012

A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents hired by a public health organization are...

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Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Lee, Scott - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2013

Organizations often use awards to incentivize performance. We design a field experiment to unbundle the mechanisms through which awards may affect behavior: by facilitating social comparison and by conferring recognition and visibility. In a nationwide health worker training program in Zambia,...

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Community Networks and PovertyReductionProgrammes: Evidence from Bangladesh

Bandiera, Oriana; Burgess, Robin; Gulesci, Selim; … - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2009

Whether basic entrepreneurship can be inculcated amongst the poorest in society and serve as a route out of poverty remains an open question. We provide evidence on this issue by looking at the effects of a large-scale asset transfer and training programme which is targeted at the poorest women...

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Trade and the Skill Premium Puzzle with Capital Market Imperfections

Bonfatti, Roberto; Ghatak, Maitreesh - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2010

An interesting puzzle is that trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s has been associated with a sharp increase in the skill premium in both developed and developing countries. This is in contrast with neoclassical theory, according to which trade should increase the relative return of the...

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Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Lee, Scott - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2013

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Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?

Berg, Erlend; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Manjula, R; Rajasekhar, D - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2013

This paper studies the interaction of incentive pay and social distance in the dissemination of information. We analyse theoretically as well as empirically the effect of incentive pay when agents have pro-social objectives, but also preferences over dealing with one social group relative to...

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