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Top Incomes in Canada : Evidence from the Census
Lemieux, Thomas - 2015
This paper looks at the evolution of incomes at the top of the distribution in Canada. Master files of the Canadian … groups driving the growth in top incomes in Canada. A finding more specific to Canada is that the oil and gas sector has also … revolution, scientists, engineers and even computer scientists do not account for much of the growth in top incomes in Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022664
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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets : An Overview
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest for financial stability with the imperatives of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136951
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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039087
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Financial Inclusion, Shocks and Poverty : Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania
Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux - 2018
We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907820
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Financial Development and Economic Growth : Evidence from Ten New EU Members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries by estimating a dynamic panel model over the period 1994-2007. The evidence suggests that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047876
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Financial Liberalization and the Relationship-Specificity of Exports
Defever, Fabrice - 2013
We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980‐1997 on sectoral export performance across 91 countries. The increased availability of external finance has boosted trade of industries that intensively use relationship‐specific inputs, and lowered exports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079160
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Financial Development and the Distribution of Income in Latin America and the Caribbean
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo J.; Rioja, Felix K. - 2021
One of the central concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been the reduction of poverty and inequality so prevalent in the continent. Using large world samples, the literature has found that financial development increases economic growth, increases the income of the poor, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324873
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true … effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty raises happiness, with a one standard-deviation change in beauty generating … about 0.10 standard deviations of additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127722
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers in Canada and Denmark
Bingley, Paul - 2011
Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed with a firm that also employed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127955
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The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on Their Education, Income Assistance and Incarcerations
Warburton, William P. - 2011
Understanding the causal impacts of taking youth on the margins of risk into foster care is an element of the evidence-base on which policy development for this crucial function of government relies. Yet, there is little research looking at these causal impacts; neither is there much empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131415