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International Kuznets Curve (?) : aSchumpeterian model of the world economy
Haruyama, Tetsugen - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012667754
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Social institutions and economic inequality : modeling the onset of the Kuznets curve
Alvarez-Pereira, Brais; Bale, Catherine S. E.; Furtado, … - 2015
Theoretical models of the Kuznets Curve have been purely analytical with little contribution towards an understanding of the timing of the process and the presence of additional mechanisms affecting its timing. This paper proposes an agent-based version of Acemoglu and Robinson's model of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057437
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A model of income and income inequality in the process of growth
Montes, Manuel F. - 1985
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003529942
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Measuring democracy
Krieger, Tommy - 2022
This short article contributes to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice by summarizing the literature on the measurement of democracy. I proceed in two step. In the first part, I describe the classical approach for producing a measure of democracy and sketch an alternative approach. The second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013469849
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Trapped factors and China's impact on global growth
Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul Michael; Terry, Stephen; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340169
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Reserve accumulation, growth and financial crises
Benigno, Gianluca; Fornaro, Luca - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671476
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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298903
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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018
Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840799
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Estimating poverty and inequality indicators using interval censored income data from the German microcensus
Walter, Paul; Weimer, Katja - 2018
Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863323
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Childrenś opportunities in Germany : an application using multidimensional measures
Bartels, Charlotte; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an … increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440704