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Financial Development and Inequality in the Global Economy
von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2016
We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996265
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Health Care Expenditure and Income : A Global Perspective
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2016
This paper investigates the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income in the world … using data on 167 countries over the period 1995-2012, collected from the World Bank data set. The analysis is carried using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979662
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Globalization, Inequality, and Redistribution : Theory and Evidence
Gozgor, Giray - 2015
This paper constructs a simple theoretical model to study the implications of globalization for inequality and … redistribution. It shows that when globalization increases inequality, a policymaker interested in maximizing the sum of welfares of … all agents increases redistribution. Empirically, the paper examines the effects of globalization on inequality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013496
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Globalization, Wage Polarization, and the Unstable Great Ratio
Cozzi, Guido - 2014
The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044598
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Globalization and Income Inequality Revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the … period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link … between globalization and income inequality differs across different groups of countries. There is a robust positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315438
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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality : An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence
Campos, Nauro F. - 2018
This paper provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927189
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Does Membership on the Un Security Council Influence IMF Decisions? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2021
We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the IMF, using panel data for 191 countries over the period 1951 to 2004. Our results indicate a robust positive relationship between temporary UN Security Council membership and participation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317395
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Does Membership in International Organizations Increase Governments' Credibility? Testing the Effects of Delegating Powers
Dreher, Axel - 2008
This paper analyzes whether nation-state governments can increase their credibility by becoming members of international organizations. Credibility is an important asset because it determines the real interest rate and is expected to have an important impact on investment and growth. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772030
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The Weight of Inequality : Variation with Industrialization and Wealth
Carson, Scott A. - 2015
When other economic measurements are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now well accepted measures for cumulative and current net nutrition. However, as the ratio of weight to height, BMI is the ratio of current to cumulative net nutrition, therefore, does not fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009843
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Wealth Inequality and Homeownership in Europe
Kaas, Leo - 2015
The recently published Household Finance and Consumption Survey has revealed large differences in wealth inequality between the countries of the Euro area. We find a strong negative correlation between wealth inequality and homeownership rates across countries. We use two decomposition methods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014361