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Trade and Poverty in Latin America
Schejtman, Alexander; Berry, Albert; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - Inter-American Development Bank
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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Revista Integración & Comercio: Año 5 : No. 15 : Septiembre-diciembre, 2001 Title: Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 5 : No. 15 : September-December, 2001
Dijck, Pitou van; Nicholls, Shelton; Nicholls, Garth; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …
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Economic growth evens-out happiness : evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced …
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From bottom to top : the entire distribution of market income in Germany, 1992-2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … substantial drop of median income and a remarkable income growth at the top 0.1% of the income distribution. The increase of … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …
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Die wahrgenommene Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens : geschlechtstypische Muster und die Bedeutung des Haushaltskontextes
Liebig, Stefan; Sauer, Carsten; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010 - Vorläufige Fassung
The rise in female labor market participation and the growth of ¿atypical¿ employment arrangements has, over the last …
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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption : efficient, but regressive?
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2013
on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …
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How a universal music education program affects time use, behavior, and school attitude
Hille, Adrian - 2015
It is still widely debated how non-cognitive skills can be affected by policy intervention. For example, universal music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries. These are intended to give children from poor families the...
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Unfair pay and health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo E. - 2016 - Updated version
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative panel data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
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Unfair pay and health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo … - 2014
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462044