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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005
Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143699
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The Employment Cycles of Neighboring Cities
Wall, Howard J. - 2011
This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126966
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Impact evaluation of structural adjustment program: a case of Pakistan
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Nawaz, Muhammad Atif; Hussain, Altaf - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
in indirect taxes,adjusting the exchange rate and sliding down of subsidies, on employment, income distribution, per … affected employment, income distribution and inflation adversely. The second policy instrument of imposition of indirect tax … negatively affected the employment, income distribution, per capita income and positively affected the inflation. The third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372518
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‘Williamson's Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter-Regional Inequality
Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2017
When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943787
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Economic and Employment Effects of Microloans in a Transition Country
Baldi, Guido; Sadovskis, Vairis; Šipilova, Viktorija - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Banka on average considerably increased their employment during the loan period. In addition, a survey was carried among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259480
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Okun’s Law, Employment Paradox and Impact of Unemployment on the Economy of the USSR and Russia.
BLINOV, Sergey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
For effective economic growth, intentional “creation” of unemployment is required to be followed up by its «elimination». From Okun’s law one can infer an interesting corollary: growing unemployment without reducing GDP increases the economy’s potential. This corollary can be proved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259561
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Economic Growth and Levels of Living in India
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The Indian economy in the recent past is growing faster (6-9%) than its past rate of growth (3-4%) and it is even surpassing the rate of growth of many developed and developing countries all over the world. The Indian economy is showing high growth potential and it is one of those countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260365
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Fixed capital and long run economic growth: evidence from Poland
Lach, Łukasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
employment was chosen as an additional variable. The significant evidence of short run feedback between fixed assets and GDP as … well as between fixed assets and employment were found in both periods analyzed. However, the long run positive impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261069
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Multi-scale Causality between Energy Consumption and GNP in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Turkey
Cifter, Atilla; Ozun, Alper - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Tests results for causality between energy consumption and economic growth do not have a consensus in the financial economics literature. Empirical evidence varies on the economies examined and methodology employed. This paper proposes a wavelet analysis as a semi- parametric model for detecting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837189
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Growth, Employment and Internal Migration. Peru, 2003-2007
Yamada, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyze trends in regional economic growth, employment and internal migration during one of the best periods of … employment. The relative size of internal migration has declined compared to the period 1988-1993 due to the virtual elimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552785