As labor has become more mobile in today''s world, it is important to understand the income and welfare of nationals … migration, and calculates them using New Zealand data. Growth performance measured by New Zealanders'' income has been clearly …

This paper examines the dynamic relationship between trade and income. While most economists agree that increased trade … leads to an increase in average income, economic theory is ambiguous about the possible effects on the long-run growth rate … of the economy. Using a dynamic panel data model, the hypotheses of no long-run effects of trade on income and on income …

growth, income distribution, and poverty. In this paper, I review theoretical and empirical research on the connections … opportunities and tightens income distribution, primarily by boosting the incomes of the poor. This work implies that financial …

. Then, it elaborates on more granular tax policy, discussing key choices in the structure of the personal income tax on … labor and capital income, taxes on wealth, the corporate income tax, and consumption taxes. The paper concludes by …

We revisit Lipset?s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using … dynamic and heterogeneous panel data estimation techniques, we find a significant and negative relationship between income and … democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …

In the cross section of countries, there is a strong positive correlation between trade and income, and a negative …) identification strategy, and exploit countries' exogenous geographic characteristics to estimate the causal effect of trade on income … and inequality. Our cross-country estimates for trade's impact on real income are consistently positive and significant …