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International Income Inequality : Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food
Almås, Ingvild - 2010
Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is substantial and systematic: the poorer a country, the more its...
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Lost in Translation : What Do Engel Curves Tell Us About the Cost of Living?
Almås, Ingvild - 2018
The Hamilton method for estimating CPI bias is simple, intuitive, and has been widely adopted. We show that the method confiates CPI bias with variation in cost-of-living across income levels. Assuming a single price index across the income distribution is inconsistent with the downward sloping...
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Structural Change, Urban Congestion, and the End of Growth
Grossmann, Volker - 2011
This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel's...
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Regulatory Risk Under Optimal Incentive Regulation
Strausz, Roland - 2009
The paper provides a tractable, analytical framework to study regulatory risk. Regulatory risk is captured by uncertainty about the policy variables in the regulator's objective function: weights attached to profits and costs of public funds. Results are as follows: 1) The regulator's reaction...
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Tax Evasion and Self-Employment in a High-Tax Country : Evidence from Sweden
Engstrouml;m, Per - 2007
Self-employed individuals have arguably greater opportunities than wage earners to underreport their incomes. The incentives for underreporting should be especially strong in an economy with generally high taxes. This paper uses recent income and expenditure data to examine the extent of...
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The Rapidly Deepening India-China Economic Relationship
Whalley, John - 2010
In this paper we focus on the rapidly deepening bilateral India-China economic relationship. Each is deeply integrating … into the global economy through trade and FDI inflows, China is seen as primarily manufacturing-lead growth with India as … service-lead growth (see Rodrick & Subramanian (2006)). An alternative view is that India is effectively a lagged version of …
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The Twin Effects of Globalization - Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms
Daveri, Francesco - 2010
Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
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The Impact of School Lunches on Primary School Enrollment : Evidence from India's Midday Meal Scheme
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2011
effects of India's midday meal scheme, which offers warm lunches, free of cost, to 120 million primary school children across … India and is the largest school feeding program in the world. To isolate the causal effect of the policy, we make use of …
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Lifting the Veil : The Face of TFP in an Indian Rail Mill
Das, Sanghamitra - 2011
We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill (RSM) in India to …
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Impact of Exchange Rate Movements on Exports : An Analysis of Indian Non-Financial Sector Firms
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013
We explore the real effective exchange rate (REER) effects on the share of exports of Indian non-financial sector firms for the period 2000 to 2010. Our empirical analysis reveals that, on average, there has been a strong and significant negative impact of currency appreciation as well as...
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