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Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We examine a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a "culture of evasion" damages state authority. Many evade tax payments, limiting the state's economic development...

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Good governance and good aid allocation

Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor) - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Decomposing the sources of earnings inequality : assessing the role of reallocation

Andersson, Fredrik; Davis, Elizabeth E.; Freedman, Matthew - 2011

This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...

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Firm heterogeneity in capital, labor ratios and wage inequality

Leonardi, Marco (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Determinants of employment growth at MNEs : evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Growth with equity : income inequality in Vietnam, 2002-14

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; McCaig, Brian - 2016

We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household …

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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …

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Rapid economic growth but rising poverty segregation : will Vietnam meet the SDGs for equitable development?

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Minh Do; Cuong … - 2023

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 … suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …

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The effect of export market access on labor market power : firm-level evidence from Vietnam

Hoang, Trang; Mitra, Devashish; Pham, Hoang - 2024

This paper examines the impact of an export market expansion created by the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA …) on competition among manufacturing firms in Vietnam's local labor markets. Using a nonparametric production function …

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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India

Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021

Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...

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