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effects on growth and on the evolution of income inequality; (ii) raising the consumption tax generates about as much economic … reduces inequality by more than utilizing the consumption tax. Hence, there is growth-inequality trade-off. …
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Do workers hired from superstar tech-firms contribute to better firm performance? To address this question, we analyze the effects of tacit knowledge spillovers from Nokia in the context of a quasi-natural experiment in Finland, the closure of Nokia's mobile device division in 2014 and the...
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South Asia has experienced significant progress in improving human and physical capital over the past few decades. Within the region, India has become a global economic powerhouse with enormous development potential ahead. To foster human and economic development, India has shown a strong...
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policy programs and their impact on labor market outcomes, inequality, and poverty. The paper illustrates the model …
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This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question …
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-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …
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This paper attempts to measure the extent of inequality within households and its contribution to overall levels of … inequality in child well-being. The paper analyses the distribution of resources (outcomes) between girls and boys for four … obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two …
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consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
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period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
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