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Group-specific redistribution, inequality, and subjective well-being in China
Deng, Peihua; Schöb, Ronnie - 2022
Using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018, this paper analyzes the relationship … between income inequality, group-specific income redistribution, and subjective well-being among China's urban, rural, and …
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
relationship between globalization and inequality in the transition countries including China and most countries of Middle and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789164
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Is there a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons from ASEAN, People Republic of China and India
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015
(economic growth). Our findings for the Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), People Republic of China and India (ACI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531112
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All about the giants : probing the influences on growth and income inequality at the end of the 20th century
Berry, R. Albert; Serieux, John - 2003
growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … of income however, the equalizing effect of China s rapid growth, despite the contradictory impact of increasing domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514125
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Health inequality and health insurance coverage : the United States and China compared
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A.; Shi, Xuezhu - 2023
We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … social determinants of health. Using comparable health survey data from China and the United States, we compare health … that whether SAH inequality is greater in the US or in China depends on the concept of status and the inequality …
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The determinants of economic growth in European regions
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Doppelhofer, Gernot; … - 2009
We use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of 255 European regions in the 1995-2005 period. We use three different specifications based on (1) the cross-section of regions, (2) the cross-section of regions with country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806087
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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861818
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Growth effects of spatial redistribution policies
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012
Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488855
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283829
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Banking and industrialization
Heblich, Stephan; Trew, Alex - 2015
We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...
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