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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 …
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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 … persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a … of income however, the equalizing effect of China s rapid growth, despite the contradictory impact of increasing domestic …
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The quantity and quality of teachers : a dynamic trade-off
Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2009
We study the dynamics of the quantity and quality of teachers in the framework of dynamic general equilibrium OLG model. The quantity and quality are jointly set by a government agency wishing to maximize the quality of basic education per student while being bound by teachers’ collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806054
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2002
When types of workers are imperfect substitutes, the Mincerian rate of return to human capital is negatively related to the supply of human capital. We work out a simple model for the joint evolution of output and wage dispersion. We estimate this model using cross-country panel data on GDP and...
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Inequality and growth : the dual role of human capital in development
Eicher, Theo S. - 2000
To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how both relate to learning-by-doing and R&D intensity. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781636
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Trade, education, and income inequality
Brückner, Markus; Long, Ngo Van; Vespignani, Joaquin - 2020
This paper examines the relationship between countries' bilateral trade with the United States that is not due to gravity (non-gravity trade) and the distribution of income within countries. In countries where only a small share of the population are educated, an increase in non-gravity trade is...
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Family, community and life-cycle earnings : evidence from siblings and youth peers
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2017
Using longitudinal data based on administrative registers for the population of Danish men we develop a model which accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We are the first to decompose the sibling correlation of permanent earnings into family and...
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Can subsidising job-related training reduce inequality?
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Benecchi, Andrea; Malley, … - 2017
A well-established stylised fact is that employer provided job-related training raises productivity and wages. Using UK data, we further find that job-related training is positively related to subsidies aimed at reducing training costs for employers. We also find that there is a positive, albeit...
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How high can you climb? : earnings inequality and intragenerational earnings mobility in a developing country : evidence from Thai tax returns
Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 2023
This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that...
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Direct distribution of rents and the resource curse in Iran : a micro-econometric analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibpour, Mohammad - 2014
tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361509