sectors would enable emerging countries to overcome the middle-income trap. Yet, this positive trend in productivity should … translate into higher wages. Thus, we pose the following questions applied to a middle-income trapped country: is there a link …

Elite occupations are characterised by the magnitude of income accumulation which has been particularly exacerbated in …

the self-employed, who generally face a higher likelihood of income losses due to COVID-19 than employees, women are 35 …% more likely to experience income losses than their male counterparts. Conversely, we do not find a comparable gender gap …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point in time those with higher income are happier because they are …

It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …

outcomes as well as in other middle-income countries in southern Africa. …

the traditional production model where technology is represented by a time trend. TFP growth is decomposed into … unobservable technical change, scale economies and observable technology shifter index components. The empirical results are based … exogenous growth factors are used in modeling four technology shifter indices to explore development infrastructure, finances …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the …