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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2007
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. Even legally traded commodities such as oil and timber have been linked to civil war. On the other...
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Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India : 2004-2012
Khanna, Shantanu - 2016
We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings increased at all percentiles, and the percentage increase was larger at the lower end. Consequently, earnings inequality declined. Recentered Influence Function decompositions...
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A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2014
This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...
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Inequality and Growth in Rural China : Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - 2021
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...
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Incomplete Catching Up : Income Among Manchurian, Yi and Han People in Rural China from 2002 to 2018
Gustafsson, Björn; Zhang, Yudan - 2022
Household income per capita among the rural Yi, Manchurian ethnic minority groups and the Han majority is studied using data from the China Household Income Project 2002, 2013 and 2018. The disparity in total per capita income between the Yi and Han populations narrowed, while the average income...
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Workforce Development as an Antipoverty Strategy : What do We Know? What Should We do?
Holzer, Harry J. - 2021
In this paper I note the basic paradox of workforce development policy: that, in an era in which skills are more important than ever as determinants of labor market earnings, we spend fewer and fewer public (federal) dollars on workforce development over time. I present trends in funding and how...
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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America : Overview and Assessment
Ferrer, Ana M. - 2011
turned to Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) as an alternative to traditional systems of unemployment insurance …. UISAs are schemes of individual mandatory savings. Therefore, they smooth income over an individual's life cycle rather than …
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Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare : A Dynamic Analysis
Blau, David M. - 2011
Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ages, no borrowing constraint, little or no uncertainty, and no institutional restrictions on...
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Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration
Dustmann, Christian - 2011
This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings … and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the … home- and host country may also be related to future return plans. Thus, comparing savings and assets between immigrants …
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Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems : Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil
Robalino, David A. - 2011
characteristic are correlated with more job opportunities. Policy simulations ten suggest that the risk pooling and savings component …
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