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Sexual bias and household consumption : a semiparametric analysis of Engel curves in rural China
Gong, Xiaodong; Soest, Arthur van; Zhang, Ping - 2000
We analyze Engel curves for nuclear households in rural China. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families covering nineteen out of thirty Chinese provinces. We consider expenditures on food, also subdivided into several food subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other...
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The distribution of wages in transition countries
Newell, Andrew - 2001
inequality. These changes are arguably the best guide to future trends in the wage distribution. Taking the case of Poland … in Poland, though there is no change in hourly wage inequality, structural change has had clear impacts of the …
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2021
We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically - and from a global viewpoint - whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries. Our theoretical model derives distinctive testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648747
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Regional unemployment and industrial restructuring in Poland
Newell, Andrew; Pastore, Francesco - 2000
This paper studies regional unemployment inequality in Poland. We find that higher unemployment regions are those … job destruction in Poland. Econometric analysis of the determinants of employment to unemployment flows reinforces this …
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Changes in the structure of earnings during the Polish transition
Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002
We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … substantially, and by similar amounts. This illustrates how even state-owned enterprises in Poland moved towards competitive wage …, in contrast to the U.S. and U.K. experiences, increases in within-group inequality in Poland were very different across …
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Social evolution, corporate culture, and exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002
It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...
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Capital-labor substitution, structural change and growth
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Long, Ngo Van; Poschke, Markus - 2015
There is a growing interest in multi-sector models that combine aggregate balanced growth, consistent with the well-known Kaldor facts, with systematic changes in the sectoral allocation of resources, consistent with the Kuznets facts. Although variations in the income elasticity of demand...
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Structural change and the Kaldor facts of economic growth
Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that households expand their consumption along a hierarchy of needs...
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Technological progress and (un)employment development
Blien, Uwe; Ludewig, Oliver - 2017
In recent times the employment effects of technical progress raised much intention. Will recent productivity gains lead to technological unemployment or to a new prosperity? In our paper it is shown formally that under general and standard preconditions the price elasticity of demand on product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596136
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Wage inequality and structural change
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Smyk, Magdalena - 2017
Income inequality in the context of large structural change has received a lot of attention in the literature, but most studies relied on household post-transfer inequality measures. This study utilizes a novel and fairly comprehensive collection of micro data sets from between 1980's and 2010...
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