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Geography vs. institutions at the village level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

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Are Hispanic immigrant families reviving the economies of America's small towns?

Coates, Dennis; Gindling, T. H. - 2010

In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing and in some cases reversing population declines. In this paper, we examine whether faster growth...

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development : Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy

Heshmati, Almas - 2014

The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...

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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Nominal or real? The impact of regional price levels on satisfaction with life

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2013

We study the effect of real versus nominal income on life satisfaction. According to economic theory real income, i.e., nominal income adjusted for purchasing power, should be the relevant source of life satisfaction. Previous work, however, has only studied the impact of nominal income. We use...

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Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2013

margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …

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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …

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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Bastani, Spencer; Blumkin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2015

In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...

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Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms

Burdín, Gabriel - 2013

Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper revisits that long-standing debate by analyzing the interplay between compensation structure and quit...

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