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partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined … inequality in rich countries. It is argued that using some unadjusted inequality measures in growth regressions may yield …
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This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a … factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than … labour can explain a significant fraction of the international variation in TFP growth. …
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This paper empirically links the efficiency and performance assessment of the general government, proxied by efficiency scores, to the trust in government. Government spending efficiency scores are first computed via data envelopment analysis (DEA). Then, relying on panel data and instrumental...
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This study examines the effects of the tax structure composition for public sector efficiency in a sample of 41 developing countries for the period between 1997-2019. We start by calculating Public Sector Performance (PSP) composite indicators and use them as outputs to compute data envelopment...
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the relationship between economic growth and income inequalities. The main objective is to understand how the GDP and GNI … per capita affect income inequality and how they differ. The results suggest a U-shaped relationship of both measures of … economic growth with the market and disposable Gini indexes, the Palma and S80S20 ratios, and the income of the wealthier 10 …
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between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can …) economies are two-fold: first, we observed that for low values of economic growth, inequality and growth bear an inverted U … relationship between growth and inequality can take the form of a wave. Secondly, we examine the issue of the existence of …
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of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital accumulation, income and inequality … 20 percent in the shortrun, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality decreases … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …
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dramatic drop in cooperation (and growth), when inequality is increased by a selfserving dictator. No such effect is observed … adverse growth effect of the interaction between the degree and the genesis of inequality. We conclude that economies giving … equal opportunities to all are not likely to suffer retarded growth due to inequality in the way economies with self …
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all variables, thus makes several explicit and novel predictions. This includes how income and inequality depend on … country size; that income growth will be a U-shaped function of initial income thus creating differentiated convergence; and …
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