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Global poverty goals and prices : how purchasing power parity matters

Jolliffe, Dean; Beer Prydz, Espen - 2015

With the recent release of the 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) data from the International Comparison Program (ICP … previous round of PPP data from 2005 led to a large increase in the estimated number of poor in the world. The 2011 price data … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set …

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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018

rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost … competitiveness at the sectoral level for Germany, and compare the empirical evidence with selected other euro area countries. …

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On price-setting for identical products in markets without formal trade barriers

Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Schettkat, Ronald - 2001

This paper investigates price-setting for truly homogenous products sold in markets without any formal trade barriers. We use data from IKEA, a furniture company selling identical products in an identical shopping environment in different EU countries. We get four remarkable outcomes: 1) The law...

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Cross-national surveys of learning achievement : how robust are the findings?

Brown, Giorgina; Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; … - 2005

International surveys of learning achievement and functional literacy are increasingly common. We consider two aspects of the robustness of their results. First, we compare results from four surveys: TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS and IALS. This contrasts with the standard approach which is to analyse a...

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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021

, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what is happening to the incomes of others. An increase in the incomes …

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Inequality comparisons with ordinal data

Jenkins, Stephen - 2019

Non-intersection of appropriately-defined Generalized Lorenz (GL) curves is equivalent to a unanimous ranking of distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction...

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A global count of the extreme poor in 2012 : data issues, methodology and initial results

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Chen, Shaohua; Dabalen, Andrew; … - 2015

Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … the global count, we find 12.7 percent of the world's population, or 897 million people, are living in extreme poverty …

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The impacts of the dollar-renminbi exchange rate misalignment on the China-United States commodity trade : an asymmetric analysis

Ferjani, Sabrine; Saafi, Sami; Nouira, Ridha; Rault, … - 2022

Contrary to most existing studies of the literature that assumed that the effects of real exchange rate (RE) misalignment on trade flows are symmetric, this paper considers a more general and realistic framework allowing for possible asymmetric effects. We use monthly time-series data over the...

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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ migration duration and saving decisions

Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010

substitute consumption intertemporally. However, the empirical results from immigrants in Germany reveal that optimal migration …

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Purchasing-power-parity and the saving behavior of temporary migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Brausmann, Alexandra; Djajić, Slobodan; … - 2018

How does saving behavior of immigrants respond to changes in purchasing power parity between the source and host countries? We examine this question by building a theoretical model of joint return-migration and saving decisions of temporary migrants and then test its implications by using data...

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