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Growth with Equity : Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14

Benjamin, Dwayne - 2016

We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household income and estimates of income inequality over this high-growth period. We focus on two questions: How have benefits from growth been distributed; and do changes in the structure...

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Income Convergence and the Flow Out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005

Barrientos Quiroga, Paola - 2015

This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy … analysis to test whether poor households are more likely to exit poverty than to remain poor. The identification strategy … explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find …

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Offshoring and Skill-Biased Technical Change in the Context of US Protectionism

Agnese, Pablo - 2019

We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall...

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Trade, Wages, and Productivity

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2021

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...

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Export-Led Growth after Covid-19 : The Case of Portugal

Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade and global value chains. Small open economies such as Portugal are particularly vulnerable. In this paper we consider the impact of the pandemic on the country's exports, arguing that an export-led recovery is possible. The challenge is to identify...

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Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment

Marchiori, Luca; Pierrard, Olivier - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced internationalcapital flows by examining the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup atwo-country overlapping generations model with search unemployment, which we calibrateon EU15 and US data. Labor...

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Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries

Keller, Katarina R. I. - 2013

Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that...

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Sibling Spillover in Rural China : A Story of Sisters and Daughters

Bansak, Cynthia - 2020

We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an increase in the Chinese and Math test scores of elder siblings when their younger sibling starts school. We use the Chinese Law of Compulsory Education as an exogenous variation in the...

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On Welfare Effects of Increasing Retirement Age

Makarski, Krzysztof - 2018

We develop an OLG model with realistic assumptions about longevity to analyze the welfare effects of raising the retirement age. We look at a scenario where an economy has a pay-as-you-go defined benefit scheme and compare it to a scenario with defined contribution schemes (funded or notional)....

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Inequality in an OLG Economy with Heterogeneous Cohorts and Pension Systems

Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018

We analyze the consumption and wealth inequality in an OLG model with mandatory pension systems. Our framework features within cohort heterogeneity of endowments and heterogeneity of preferences. We allow for population aging and gradual decline in TFP growth. We show four main results. First,...

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