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Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

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Global Redistribution of Income

Bourguignon, Fran??ois; Levin, Victoria; Rosenblatt, David - 2012

The actual distribution of world income across countries is extremely unequal, much higher than the within country inequality faced by most countries. The question studied in this paper is: How do international policies on aid, trade, and factor movements affect the international distribution of...

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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country

Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015

In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...

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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015

Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...

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Economic mobility and fairness in a developing country : evidence from Peru

Castro, Juan Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo; Medina, Santiago; … - 2023

Periods of rapid economic growth in developing countries have been well studied in terms of poverty and income inequality reduction, but much less is known about the performance of these countries in terms of economic mobility. We study intragenerational mobility in Peru using an asset-based...

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Labor market power and development

Armangué-Jubert, Tristany; Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, … - 2023

countries. We structurally estimate a model of oligopsony with free entry for countries at different stages of development and … the top of the development ladder. …

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The great happiness moderation

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2012

-averse individuals. -- happiness ; inequality ; economic growth ; development ; Easterlin paradox …

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Hobbes to Rousseau : inequality, institutions, and development

Cervellati, Matteo (contributor); … - 2005

of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law …, institutions shape the income distribution. Simulations illustrate how inequality affects the development process and may lead to …

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Infrastructure and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Calder??n, C??sar; Serv??n, Luis - 2012

ingredient for economic development. Sub-Saharan Africa ranks consistently at the bottom of all developing regions in terms of … development on growth and inequality, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper uses a comparative cross-regional perspective … contribution of infrastructure development to growth and equity across Africa. …

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Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Development

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Walton, Michael - 2012

Just as equality of opportunity becomes an increasingly prominent concept in normative economics, the authors argue that it is also a relevant concept for positive models of the links between distribution and aggregate efficiency. Persuasive microeconomic evidence suggests that inequalities in...

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