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The construction and interpretation of combined cross-section and time-series inequality datasets
Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2005
our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …The inequality dataset compiled in the 1990s by the World Bank and extendedby the UN has been both widely used and …. Wedevelop techniques to deal with national and international comparability problemsintrinsic to such datasets. The result is a …
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325967
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001639506
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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions : on revealed comparative advantage and merger waves
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2008 - This version: January 2008
By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and cross-border mergers and acquisitions - M&As), we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374427
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Heterogeneous agents, human capital formation and international income inequality
Munandar, Haris - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003645092
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Heterogeneous agents, human capital formation and international income inequality
Munandar, Haris - 2007
. Besides exploring cross-country variation in public education, how its low level can lead to a poverty trap and how its high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374433
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Welfare in village and towns : micro-measurement of poverty and inequality
Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Jean Olson; Lanjouw, Peter - 2000
We construct and derive the properties of an estimator of welfarewhich takes advantage of the detailed nature of information about living standards available in small household surveys and the comprehensive coverage of a census. By combining the strengths of each, our estimator can be used at a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303309
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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture
Hoogeveen, Johannes - 1999
technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain households are poverty trapped, that the initial distribution of wealth …
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Social (in)stability, distributive conflicts, and investment in poor and rich countries
Riedl, Arno - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001431968
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Welfare in villages and towns: micro-measurement of poverty and inequality
Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Jean Olson; Lanjouw, Peter - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001472936