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Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries

Corak, Miles (contributor) - 2005

This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are stated. The second objective is to take stock of child...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002764242

Regional measures of human capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian (contributor); Erber, Georg (contributor); … - 2009

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793935

Measurement of globalization and its variations among countries, regions and over time

Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor); … - 2005

manufacturing industry. -- globalization ; economic integration ; composite index ; manufacturing ; India …

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Data scarcity and poverty measurement

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2021

Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty imputation in data-scarce environments, update recent...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603834

A pair-wise approach to testing for output and growth convergence

Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also proposed, which suggests that all such output gap pairs must be...

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Institutional arrangements, employment performance and the quality of work

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - 2009

The observation of highly regulated, but successful economies has given rise to the hypothesis of various viable models of labor market adaptability. The paper presents a quantitative indicator that tries to avoid a simplified flexibility-rigidity dichotomy and provides a detailed picture of the...

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A correction for regression discontinuity designs with group-specific mismeasurement of the running variable

Bartalotti, Otávio; Brummet, Quentin; Dieterle, Steven - 2019

average treatment effect of interest will typically fail. While the form of this measurement error varies across applications …, in many cases the measurement error structure is heterogeneous across different groups of observations. We develop a … novel measurement error correction procedure capable of addressing heterogeneous mismeasurement structures by leveraging …

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Income convergence and the flow out of poverty in India, 1994 - 2005

Quiroga, Paola Andrea Barrientos; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; … - 2015

explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498489

An innovation index based on knowledge capital investment : definition and results for the UK market sector

Clayton, Tony; Borgo, Mariela Dal; Haskel, Jonathan - 2009

We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811075

Solow or Lucas? : testing speed of convergence on a panel of OECD countries

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Bassanini, Andrea; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2010

We test whether the growth experience of a sample of 21 OECD countries over the past three decades is more consistent with the augmented Solow model or the Uzawa-Lucas model, by exploiting the different non-linear restrictions implied by them as regards the relationship between factor shares and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154581

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