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Rising inequalities in income and health in China : who is left behind?
Baeten, Steef; Van Ourti, Tom; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722984
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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022 - This version: December 2022
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472300
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Measuring tastes for equity and aggregate wealth behind the veil of ignorance
Heufer, Jan; Shachat, Jason M.; Xu, Yan - 2018
ignorance. We pair portfolio and wealth distribution choice problems which have a common budget set. For a given bundle, the … distribution over an individual's wealth is the same for both problems. The portfolio choice serves as a benchmark to evaluate … whether the wealth distribution choice exhibits equity or efficiency preferring tastes. We report experiments using a within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928322
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Explaining the wealth holdings of different cohorts : productivity growth and social security
Kapteyn, Arie; Alessie, Rob; Lusardi, Annamaria - 1999
It is well-known that individuals born in different periods of time (cohorts)exhibit different wealth accumulation … accumulate wealth. The first one represents productivitydifferences across cohorts: the aggregate level of GNP per capita when … wealth holdings of different cohorts. In comparison with the cohorts that lived without SocialSecurity for a portion of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302136
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Are urban children really healthier?
Van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2007
-urban risk ratios of stunting and under-five mortality fall by respectively 53% and 59% after controlling for household wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372512
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The relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment in Japan
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372966
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What explains the rural-urban gap in infant mortality : household or community characteristics?
Van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2007
The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained using a new decomposition method that permits identification of the ontribution of unobserved heterogeneity at the household and the community level. Using Demographic and Health Survey data for six Francophone countries in Western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372983
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Trade, factor mobility and the extent of economic integration : theory and evidence
Mikolajun, Irena; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2015
The Middle East was once seen as a medieval great globalized force. Nowadays it shows one of the lowest intra-regional trade in the world and therefore it is claimed that the region is poorly integrated. Yet, with the steady flow of workers across national borders of the Middle East is this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305771
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Business ownership and unemployment in Japan
Acht, Joost van; Stam, Joop A.; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2004
The influence of industrial structure, more specifically of business ownership, is investigated on the level of unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334828
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Dynamics of Chinese comparative advantage
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2004
We analyze the dynamics of Chinese comparative advantage as measured by export shares and the Balassa index using 3-digit and 4-digit sectors for the period 1970 – 1997. We use novel tools to identify periods of rapid structural change and the persistence of comparative advantage, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334830