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Technological Progress and the Future of Kuznets Curve's
Shin, Inyong; Kim, Hyunho; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We use OECD members' data to ascertain that new-born technological inventions increase the degree of inequality but that this declines as the technology disperses into the overall economy (e.g., Galor and Tsiddon, 1997; Weil, 2005). Therefore, we show explicitly that Kuznets curve does not converge...
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The Kuznets Curve and the Inequality Process
Angle, John; Nielsen, Francois; Scalas, Enrico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Four economists, Mauro Gallegati, Steven Keen, Thomas Lux, and Paul Ormerod, published a paper after the 2005 Econophysics Colloquium criticizing conservative particle systems as models of income and wealth distribution. Their critique made science news: coverage in a feature article in Nature....
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Liberalization of trade: why so much controversy?
Harrison, Ann; Tang, Helena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Drawing on the experience and academic research of the 1990s, this chapter identifies five lessons: • Openness to trade … India); others have achieved partial liberalization through the establishment of export processing zones (for example China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258463
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Trade Openness and Economic Growth: Analysis of the Channels of Influence
Feal-Zubimendi, Soledad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The literature that study the positive relation between openness and growth is extensive, but the discussion about it … and the influence of the openness´ channels. The channels in study are: technology transmition, exports, price distortion …, size of Government and foreign direct investment. The results report that openness influence growth through different links …
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International trade and economic growth in the Polish economy
Gurgul, Henryk; Lach, Łukasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper the results of linear and nonlinear causality examination performed for openness of Polish economy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261117
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Growth and openness: empirical evidence from Bangladesh
Haq, Munshi Masudul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The study seeks to investigate empirically the direction and shape of causality among trade openness, investment and … openness, national income growth and total investment. Furthermore, empirical results of Granger causality confirm that there … exists unidirectional causality between economic growth and investment; between trade openness and economic growth; and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401344
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Factors Determining FDI in Nigeria: Role of Emerging Economies
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
earlier paper. China is emerging as a strong trade partner of Nigeria and significantly influences its natural resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107412
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Changes in the Earnings Distribution in Slovenia during Rapid Growth, 1991-2005
Stanovnik, Tine; Verbic, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyses the dynamics of income inequality of wage earners in Slovenia from 1991 to 2005, using two different datasets. Both are derived from the personal income tax files. The first is obtained by the Statistical Office of Slovenia, extracting all full-time employees from these files...
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The distribution of wages and employee incomes in Slovenia, 1991–2009
Stanovnik, Tine; Verbič, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper analyses the distribution of employee income in Slovenia in the period 1991–2009. The analysis is based on two different datasets, both derived from the personal income tax files. It was shown that income inequality of employees income has somewhat increased in this period, using...
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Islam and Human Development
Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper aims to present the Islamic appraisal of established theories in academic literature of development economics, both in classical and neo-classical economics. The paper also explains the Islamic concept of human development and shows it to be more welfare maximizing to humans in their...
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