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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?

Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...

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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2018

Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a...

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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth : An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - 2005

This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use panel data on 16 countries spanning the 1965 -2000...

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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...

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Life expectancy and the environment

Mariani, Fabio; Pérez-Barahona, Agustín; Raffin, Natacha - 2009

We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...

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

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

them as regards the relationship between factor shares and speed of convergence. Using cross-country/timeseries data, we … specify our growth regression without imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on the speed of convergence and short …-run parameters. Indeed, both theoretical models imply that the speed of convergence to the steady state differs across countries due …

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Misallocation and Inequality

Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022

For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...

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Does Turnover Inhibit Specialization? Evidence from a Skill Survey in Peru

Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023

We design, pilot, and field a new survey of occupational skills in Peru, to investigate human capital differences between poor and rich countries. Though the average skill level is comparable, Peruvian jobs have markedly more uniform skill profiles than jobs in the US. However, matching...

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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases: Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea

Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017

We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone...

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