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The impact of trade on wage inequality in developing countries: Technology vs. comparative advantage

Scholl, Nathalie - 2015

Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified … pure 'trade'- effects, supporting the Heckscher-Ohlin predictions of the effects of trade on wage inequality once the …

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The ins and outs of top income mobility

Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen - 2013

This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...

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Differences in Learning and Inequality*

Cappelen, Ådne - 2006

between productivity growth and inequality. If this view is correct it poses some challenges for policies that focus on … of factors other than skilled biased technical change in order to explain the diverse picture of changes in inequality … explanations for the varying experience wrt. wage inequality between OECD-countries in recent decades. …

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Making an impact? The relevance of information on aid effectiveness for charitable giving. A laboratory experiment

Metzger, Laura; Günther, Isabel - 2015

A considerable and increasing share of foreign aid stems from private donations. Hence, individual donors can increase social welfare in developing countries by directing their funds to the most effective NGOs. Surprisingly few studies have analyzed whether private donors care about aid...

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The relationship between altruism and equal sharing. Evidence from inter vivos transfer behavior

Halvorsen, Elin; Thoresen, Thor O. - 2005

Several studies reject the implications of the altruism model. In this study it is argued that parents who transfer resources to their children both are altruistic and influenced by an equal division fairness norm. Under such motives, the degree of income compensation should be stronger in...

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Economic Uncertainties in Valuing Reductions in Children's Environmental Health Risks

Krupnick, Alan; Hoffmann, Sandra; Adamowicz, Wictor - 2005

The recognition that environmental hazards can affect children differently and more severely than adults has provoked growing concern in industrialized nations about the impact of environmental pollution on children’s health. In this paper, commissioned by the OECD, we are charged with...

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Auction Mechanisms for Allocating Subsidies for Carbon Emissions Reduction: An Experimental Investigation

He, Haoran; Chen, Yefeng; Name, Last; Name, First - 2014

One method to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to subsidize emissions-reducing activities. The question is how to allocate such subsidies. Allocation through auctions is an emerging mechanism. In a controlled experimental market setting, we compare the effects of a variety of auction...

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The persistent effects of place-based policy: Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2015

Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary placebased subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...

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Separation of Powers, Political Competition and Efficient Provision of Public Goods

Boukouras, Aristotelis; Koufopoulos, Kostas - 2011

In this paper we provide a political game where agents decide whether to become legislators or politicians. Legislators determine the political institutions constraining politicians\' behavior and politicians compete for gaining the power to make decisions about the level of the public good. We...

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Prices vs. quantities with endogenous cost structure

Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid - 2013

Authorities often lack information for efficient regulation of the commons. This paper derives a criterion comparing prices versus tradable quantities in terms of expected welfare, given uncertainty, optimal policy and endogenous cost structure. I show that one cannot determine which regulatory...

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