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This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a … perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin … factor inputs and technology for growth …
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Understanding the complex relations between trade integration and poverty reduction is now a priority for Latin American policymakers. The chapters of this book, penned by eminent authors with a long-standing record in the field, represent the current state of knowledge about trade and poverty...
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) but have moderate effects on the growth of subsequent years. Regional (per-capita) inequality is also evaluated using … discontinuity of per-capita GDP growth partitions Austria's regions into two groups. Clear evidence of discontinuity (a “take … Austria, Bohemia, Silesia, Galicia, Bukovina, and Dalmatia there is instead no evidence of structural break in their growth …
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of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …
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This paper examines the role of international trade, and specifically imports from low-wage countries, in determining patterns of job loss in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2007. Motivated by intuitions from factor-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms...
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In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. Roughly speaking, social mobility can be measure by means of two distinct types of correlations: intergenerational correlations and sibling correlations.
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This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … increases in inequality among the first nine deciles. In the remaining 5, the reason is a greater concentration among the …, inequality has increased less in this region than in developed countries and in Eastern Europe. …
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In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. An index of social mobility for developing countries is proposed based on the correlation of schooling gaps between siblings.
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East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past three decades. This paper compares household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First, we provide the first comparisons of savings in these...
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and on the particular ways in which the data is treated; b) Our ideas about the effect of inequality on economic growth … inequality measured in a conventional way is to a large extent an illusion created by differences in characteristics of the data …) Standard household surveys in LAC are unable to capture the incomes of the richest sectors of society; so, the inequality we …
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