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What if you had been less fortunate : the effects of poor family background on current labor market outcomes

Cho, Sungwook; Heshmati, Almas - 2013

This study examines the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to experience of poverty or poor family background during one's childhood. With the data from Korean Labor Income Panel Study, KLIPS, quantile regression...

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Income vs. consumption inequality in South Korea : evaluating stochastic dominance rankings by various household attributes

Heshmati, Almas; Rudolf, Robert - 2013

determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. Unconditional as well as conditional stochastic dominance … (SD) tests are performed by year, by household heads' characteristics (age, education, gender, health, marital status and … occupation) and by household characteristics (household type, household size, degree of urbanization). Mean least squares …

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Integration of technological and social components in a smart urban development model : a case study of China

Heshmati, Almas; Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Summers, … - 2022

The path of urbanization around the world and in particular in China has been rapid. This study addresses measurement of a composite index of networking among key components of societal infrastructure and how it affects the process of urbanization. This study has a number of objectives. First we...

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Measurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries

Heshmati, Almas (contributor); … - 2007

Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three composite indices that are multidimensional and...

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Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes

Maasoumi, Esfandiar (contributor); … - 2005

control for many individual/family specific attributes, such as age, gender, education, number of children, work and marital …

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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market

Heshmati, Almas - 2012

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces : a panel data analysis

Shiu, Alice (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2006

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical …

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Globalisation, inequality and poverty relationships : a cross country evidence

Neutel, Marcel (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2006

In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of 65 developing countries. The index is based on the globalisation index proposed by A.T. Kearney...

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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...

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Corruption and the shadow economy : a structural equation model approach

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009

The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or complement each other -exhibiting either a negative or positive relationship. This paper -using a structural equation model with two latent variables - extracts information on...

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