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Global redistribution of income
Bourguignon, François - 2006
with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …
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Decomposing changes in income inequality into vertical and horizontal redistribution and reranking, with applications to China and Vietnam
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …
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Distributional effects of crises : / the role of financial transfers
Halac, Marina - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523264
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Optimal pre-merger notification mechanisms : incentives and efficiency of mandatory and voluntary schemes
Rodríguez González, Aldo Javier - 2009
"The authors compare the two merger control systems currently employed worldwide: a mandatory system based on merger size threshold and a voluntary system with ex-post monitoring and fines. The voluntary system possesses two informational advantages: (i) the enforcement agency employs more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394230
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Zooming in : from aggregate volatility to income distribution
Calderón, César - 2009
"In contrast with a growing literature on the drivers of aggregate volatility in developing countries, its consequences in terms of individual incomes have received less attention. This paper looks at the impact of cyclical output fluctuations and extreme output events (crises) on unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394189
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Global income inequality : what it is and why it matters
Milanovic, Branko - 2006
. And it shows why global inequality matters and proposes a scheme for global redistribution. "--World Bank web site …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522195
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Poverty traps and nonlinear income dynamics with measurement error and individual heterogeneity
Antman, Francisca - 2005
"Theories of poverty traps stand in sharp contrast to the view that anybody can make it through hard work and thrift. However, empirical detection of poverty traps is complicated by the lack of long panels, measurement error, and attrition. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522436
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Equity, welfare, and the setting of trade policy in general equilibrium
Francois, Joseph F. - 2005
"The authors analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. They embed these inequality-adjusted social welfare functions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522469
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Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income
Korinek, Anton - 2005
"The authors examine the distributional implications of selective compliance in sample surveys, whereby households with different incomes are not equally likely to participate. They discuss poverty and inequality measurement implications for monotonically decreasing and inverted-U...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522656
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The effects of infrastructure development on growth and income distribution
Calderán, César - 2004
"Calderán and Serven provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on economic growth and income distribution using a large panel data set encompassing over 100 countries and spanning the years 1960-2000. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522934