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Global poverty goals and prices : how purchasing power parity matters
Jolliffe, Dean; Prydz, Espen Beer - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528588
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375987
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A dual policy paradox : why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?
Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor);  … - 2006
Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328062
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Global reform of personal income taxation, 1981 - 2005 : evidence from 189 countries
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Buttrick, Steve; Duncan, Denvil - 2009
In this paper we use a panel of 189 countries to describe the salient trends that have emerged in national personal income tax systems spanning the twenty five year period from 1981 to 2005. Using complete national income tax schedules, we calculate actual average and marginal tax rates at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863164
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Cross-country evidence on teacher performance pay
Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779850
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Labor market policy : a comparative view on the costs and benefits of labor market flexibility
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010
I review theories and evidence on wage-setting institutions and labor market policies in an international comparative context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779856
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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? : Differences-in-differences evidence across countries
Hanushek, Eric Alan (contributor);  … - 2005
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003302215
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Trends in economic research : an international perspective
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research … and rely on a very comprehensive database of scientific journals, to provide a cross-country comparison of the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941673
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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961664
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152425