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Estimating the impact of external shocks on the ECCU : application to the COVID shock

Parlak, Vivian; Salinas, Gonzalo; Vargas, Mauricio - 2021

We measure the impact of frequent exogeneous shocks on small ECCU economies, including changes to global economic activity, tourism flows, oil prices, passport sales, FDI, and natural disasters. Using Canonical-Correlation Analysis (CCA) and dynamic panel regression analysis we find significant...

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A TIP against the COVID-19 pandemic

Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2020

A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...

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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records

Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015

This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles forprime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...

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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003

inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …

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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility

Jenkins, Stephen; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2003

income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in …We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain …

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Secular drivers of the natural rate of interest in the United States : a quantitative evaluation

Platzer, Josef; Peruffo, Marcel - 2022

productivity growth, a rise in income inequality, and public policy. The model can account for a 2.2 percentage point (pp) decline … in r* between 1975 and 2015, which is within the range of empirical estimates. Rising income inequality is an important … driver (-0.70 pp), and together with demographic change (-0.71 pp) and the slowdown in productivity growth (-1.0 pp) explains …

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Will COVID-19 have long-lasting effects on inequality? : evidence from past pandemics

Furceri, Davide; Loungani, Prakash; Ostry, Jonathan David; … - 2021

This paper provides evidence on the impact of major epidemics from the past two decades on income distribution. The pandemics in our sample, even though much smaller in scale than COVID-19, have led to increases in the Gini coefficient, raised the income share of higher-income deciles, and...

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Financial globalization and inequality : capital flows as a two-edged sword

Eichengreen, Barry; Csonto, Balazs; ElGanainy, Asmaa Adel; … - 2021

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Who will bear the brunt of lockdown policies? : evidence from tele-workability measures across countries

Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 2020

those at the bottom of the earnings distribution, suggesting that the pandemic could exacerbate inequality. Crosscountry …

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Austerity, inequality and private debt overhang

Klein, Mathias; Winkler, Roland - 2017 - This version: January 17, 2017

income inequality during periods of private debt overhang. In contrast, there are no discernible distributional effects when …

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