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We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
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We propose a model of "trade" between high income and low-income groups where the rich being scared of the spread of infection hires the poor to engage them in exposure-intensive outdoor activities as workers in the household industry. People who endure hardships and sustain exposure to...
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in China's trade patterns. The analysis is based on both economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and … applies recently developed panel data methods that explicitly take into account unobserved heterogeneity, specifically the …
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a unique panel of inequality estimates for 24 transitional countries for the period 1989-1998. The fixed effects model …
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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 …
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The former EU president Jean-Claude Junker has proposed that all countries of the European Union should also adopt the euro as their currency and recent research has shown that countries currently pursuing this goal indeed fulfill the classical Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criterion of positively...
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effect vector decomposition (FEVD) technique. Our estimation results indicate a positive and significant impact of FTAs on …
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the panel data set of Lessmann (2014), which covers 56 countries (835 sub-national regions) for the period 1980-2009. The … IV and dynamic panel regressions provide evidence that trade increases interregional inequality, but that the coefficient …
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regional income data are available. We subsequently use our estimation results for an out-ofsample prediction of regional … regional inequality based on cross-section data. Panel regressions investigate the within-country changes in inequality, i …
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This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...
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