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Public education expenditure, institution development, and regional innovations : an empirical evidence from China
Li, Chenhui; Lian, Xubei; Zhang, Zhi - 2018
This paper investigates the relationship between government education expenditure and regional innovation, a key engine of China’s long-term economic growth as the nation undergoes massive economic restructuring and deep transformations. In an attempt to inform a whole-of-government approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809877
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The information content and redistribution effects of state and municipal rating changes in Mexico
Mendoza-Velazquez, Alfonso (contributor) - 2009
The fiscal and financial reforms carried out in Mexico in 2000 have encouraged a widespread presence of rating agencies … government in Mexico intending to access credit and capital markets must count with at least one credit rating from one of the … State and Municipal governments on bond returns in Mexico. By employing a Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) structure for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003812670
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Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - 2011
This paper proposes a multidimensional procedure for jointly assessing the absolute and relative pro-poorness of growth. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269284
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On various ways of measuring pro-poor growth
Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques - 2011
This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median of the income distribution but assumes that such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125164
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - 2012
Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the authors show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009411930
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What accounts for the increase in female labor force participation in Spain
Osuna-Padilla, Victoria - 2018
Over the last three decades, Spanish female labor force participation (LFP) has tremendously increased, particularly, that of married women. At the same time, the income tax structure, the fiscal treatment of families, policies to reconcile family and work, and the education distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778736
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The only child, birth order and educational outcomes
Lao, Yehui; Dong, Zhiqiang - 2019
The one-child policy was implemented in September 1980 and abolished in late 2015. With this change in the demographic policy, the fertility decision of families also changed. Such decisions can result in an increase in the number of siblings in a family. Individuals' educational outcomes may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963837
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On the size of sheepskin effects : a meta-analysis
Mora, Jhon James; Muro, Juan - 2015
The authors use information gathered from 122 studies on the effects of high school diplomas on wages in different countries worldwide to carry out a meta-analysis that shows high school diplomas have a statistically significant effect on wages of nearly 8 percent. This effect varies whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010512514
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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997 - 2008
García-Fernándeza, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - 2012
In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past decade in order to empirically detect income classes as sub-populations of incomes concentrated around an optimal number of poles. The statistical models compared are a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009632195
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Human capital and the adoption of information and communications technologies : evidence from investment climate survey of Pakistan
Mughal, Mazhar; Diawara, Barassou - 2011
This paper studies the impact of human capital on the adoption and diffusion of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in the Pakistani firms using the World Bank Enterprise Survey 2002-07. The paper considers various indicators of human capital and measures of ICT adoption and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009159724