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development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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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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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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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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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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comprehensively characterize the impact of monotheism on early economic development. Monotheist religions produced a paradigm shift in … monotheistic religions aided early development both in the West and the Near East until the advent of the Industrial Revolution …. -- Economic development ; religion ; institutions …
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-averse individuals. -- happiness ; inequality ; economic growth ; development ; Easterlin paradox …
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interactions between trust and economic development in the realms of finance, innovation, the organization of firms, the labor …
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Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in … ; institutions ; economic development …
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It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …
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