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Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China
Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282331
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A new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces
Jasso, Guillermina - 2007
This paper proposes a new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces. The goal of the new theory is to integrate theories … describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … characteristics, and primordial sociobehavioral outcomes. The unified theory posits the operation of three sociobehavioral forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268702
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Linking individuals and societies
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science - population and variable. Starting with the simplest case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269509
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Hobbes to Rousseau : Inequality, Institutions, and Development
Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - 2005
We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law. We study the conditions under which a state of law can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262181
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Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The goal of scientific work is to understand more and more by less and less. In this effort, theoretical unification plays a large part. There are two main types of theoretical unification – unification of different theories of the same field of phenomena and unification of theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822968
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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper proposes a new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces. The goal of the new theory is to integrate theories … describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … characteristics, and primordial sociobehavioral outcomes. The unified theory posits the operation of three sociobehavioral forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703470
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Automatic stabilizers, economic crisis and income distribution in Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269797
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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274166
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Multidimensional affluence: Theory and applications to Germany and the US
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286273
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267998