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Andrews, Dan; Jencks, Christopher; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the top decile’s income share is associated with a...

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Earnings Inequality in Australia: Changes, Causes and Consequences.

Borland, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998

This paper studies the changes in earnings inequality. It also examines the causes and consequences of this changes.

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Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

find that those who earn near-minimum wages are disproportionately female, unmarried and young, without post …-income households. Using various plausible parameters for the effect of minimum wages on hourly wages and employment, I estimate the …

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Distribution & Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with … their bliss point can only be made better off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than … always reduces employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase …

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Income and schooling

Brückner, Markus; Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Whereas existing literature has documented strong correlations between national incomes and measures of schooling attainment, causality has been hard to pin down. Much of empirical work had tended to interpret these correlations as implying an effect of human capital on national income, but...

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Measuring the Transformation of the European Economies: Income, Health and Welfare

Floud, Roderick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984

The measurement of national income has added greatly to our understanding of economic and social change in Europe over the past hundred years. But national income analysis does not take full account of changes in welfare and particularly of the causes and effects of long-term changes in the...

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Precipitation, Profits, and Pile-Ups

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

In considering the economic impacts of climatic changes, economists frequently use annual national income as a proxy for social welfare. I show that such studies suffer from a significant bias, arising from the fact that such models typically ignore changes in mortality rates. Using panel data...

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Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate

Roy, Tirthankar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The paper contributes to the debate on relative levels of living in the early modern world by estimating the income of and probable range of income growth in Bengal before European colonization. The exercise yields two conclusions, (a) average income in Bengal was significantly smaller than that...

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Pay Differences Between Men and Women: Longitudinal Evidence from the 1946 Birth Cohort

Joshi, Heather; Newell, Marie-Louise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

The MRC National Survey of Health and Development provides data on the hourly pay of males and females at age 26 in 1972 and in 1977. These have been subjected to regression analysis to see how far the gap between men's and women's pay is statistically explicable by (a) a "human capital" model...

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Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be …

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