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Assessing the impact of Mali’s water privatization across stakeholders
Estache, Antonio; Grifell-Tatjé, Emili - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper offers a unique quantitative evaluation of the distribution of the welfare of a water privatization …-offs, with an uneven gain distribution within factor categories and foreign actors clearly favored over domestic actors. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399719
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Socially Responsible Trade Integration: A Political Economy Perspective
Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Economists tend to agree that international trade liberalization brings significant gains from trade to countries engaging in such a process. At the same time however, public opinion is much less optimistic and there is a widespread concern that the current sharing of the gains from trade is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662196
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On the Consequences of Demographic Change for Rates of Return to Capital, and the Distribution of Wealth and Welfare
Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
world-wide rates of return, international capital flows and the distribution of wealth and welfare in the OECD. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666790
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Unemployment versus Mismatch of Talents: Reconsidering Unemployment Benefits
Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
We develop an equilibrium search-matching model with risk-neutral agents and two-sided ex-ante heterogeneity. Unemployment insurance has the standard effect of reducing employment, but also helps workers to get a suitable job. The predictions of our simple model are consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788908
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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
change the international and national distribution of skills and thereby equality in the receiving society. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791628
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Inequality of Earnings
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792213
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Pricing Policy Under Double Market Power: Madagascar and the International Vanilla Market
de Melo, Jaime; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Takacs, Wendy E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper uses a price-leadership model of the international vanilla market to study the welfare consequences of alternative pricing policies for Madagascar – a country that controls domestic production through a single-channel marketing system and is the leader in the vanilla market....
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Where did the Productivity Growth Go? Inflation Dynamics and the Distribution of Income
Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
distribution. We show that over the entire period 1966-2001, as well as over 1997-2001, only the top 10 percent of the income … distribution enjoyed a growth rate of real wage and salary income equal to or above the average rate of economy-wide productivity … productivity growth, because half of the income gains went to the top 10% of the income distribution, leaving little left over for …
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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of … substantial drop of median income and a remarkable income growth at the top 0.1% of the income distribution. The increase of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124248
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Jobs, Workers and Changes in Earnings Dispersion
Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia; Stevens, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The ‘fractal’ nature of the rise in earnings dispersion is one of its key features and remains a puzzle. This paper offers a new perspective on the causes of changes in earnings dispersion, focusing on the role of labour reallocation. Once we drop the assumption that all firms pay a given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497843