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Does insurance expansion alter health inequality and mobility? : evidence from the Mexican seguro popular
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A.; Sáenz de Miera … - 2017
in Mexico between 2002 and 2009, although the change is only consistent for the upward looking definition of status …. Together with the lack of mobility in health observed, we can thus conclude that Mexico is becoming more rigid over time …
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Intragenerational inequality aversion and intergenerational equity
Cairns, Robert D.; Del Campo, Stellio; Martinet, Vincent - 2021
We study the interplay between intragenerational and intergenerational equity in an economy with two countries producing and consuming from national capital stocks. We characterize the sustainable development path that a social planner would implement to achieve intertemporal egalitarianism. If...
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Inequality and the value of public natural capital
Meya, Jasper; Baumgärtner, Stefan; Drupp, Moritz A.; … - 2020
We study how income inequality affects the social value of a dynamic public good, such as natural capital. Our theory shows that both intra- and intertemporal inequality affect the social value of public natural capital. The direction and size of the effects are driven by the degree of...
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human wellbeing, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
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Competitiveness : a comparison of China and Mexico
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas (contributor);  … - 2007
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An analysis of the impact of public infrastructure on productivity performance of Mexican industry
Mamatzakis, Emmanuel C. (contributor) - 2007
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A multivariate long-memory model with structural breaks
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria (contributor);  … - 2007
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Maquiladoras and informality : a mixed blessing
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; Riaño, Alejandro - 2011
Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a … market outcomes in Mexico. We develop a heterogeneous firm model with imperfect labor markets that captures salient features … the equilibrium with an informal sector. -- offshoring ; informal sector ; maquiladoras ; trade and labor markets ; Mexico …
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Mexican and Hispanic net nutrition in the 19th century American West
Carson, Scott Alan - 2015
When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
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The new international architecture
Dornbusch, Rudiger - 2002
In 1998 Rüdiger Dornbusch gave the Munich Lectures in Economics entitled International Financial Crises . The CES Academic Council awarded him the prize and title Distinguished CES Fellow for his outstanding work on the monetary theory of foreign trade.Rüdiger Dornbusch passed away on July 25,...
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