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Top Incomes in Sweden During Three-Quarters of a Century : A Micro Data Approach

Gustafsson, Björn - 2007

This paper aims to throw light on the development of top incomes in Sweden as well as the causes for change. Using household income data we show that since the first half of the 1980s, real income at the top of the distribution has developed more favourably than for other groups. This contrasts...

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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?

Gustafsson, Björn - 2010

urban areas in China are important reasons for this cross-country difference in inequality. Wage is a more non …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … increase income inequality. Cross-country differences in the process of transition are also found to be significant. A …

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Growing into Relative Income Poverty : Urban China 1988 to 2013

Gustafsson, Björn - 2019

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and 2013 urban residents in China changed their assessment of how much money that is necessary. Data from the China Household Income Project indicate that while, assessed against...

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Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China

Gustafsson, Björn - 2014

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until...

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Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China

Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - 2021

being employed as a worker of high rank. There is relatively little income inequality among workers of high rank as well as …

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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...

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