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Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America
Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - 2019
This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp … for the process of reduction in inequality, but do not fully account for the fall in within-skill variance. Evidence using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114119
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Cities of workers, children, or seniors? : age structure and economic growth in a global cross-section of cities
Jedwab, Remi; Pereira, Daniel; Roberts, Mark - 2019
A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121233
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How much does reducing inequality matter for global poverty?
Lakner, Christoph; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Negre, Mario; … - 2019
international development and agreed upon in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 10. Using data from 164 … to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051829
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Inequality and welfare dynamics in the Russian Federation during 1994-2015
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lokshin, Michael; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2018
into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia … findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather …, leading to less long-term inequality than short-term inequality. The analysis also finds that switching from a part-time job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002184
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Poverty convergence in a time of stagnation : a municipal-level perspective from Mexico (1992–2014)
López-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; … - 2019
This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is evidence of income and poverty convergence at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121224
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Market size, sunk costs of entry, and transport costs : an empirical evaluation of the impact of demand-side factors versus supply-side factors on manufacturing productivity
Jones, Patricia; Lartey, Emmanuel; Mengistae, Taye; … - 2019
This paper uses plant-level, panel data from the Ethiopian manufacturing census to estimate the effects of demand-side and supply-side factors on industrywide aggregate productivity. The paper focuses on the effects of three factors: (1) local market size, (2) the value of transportation costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051859
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Innovation patterns and their effects on firm-level productivity in South Asia
Cirera, Xavier; Cusolito, Ana P. - 2019
development investments in equipment, and training) highly concentrated in a few firms, and mature, exporter, and foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051862
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Environment and development : penalized non-parametric inference of global trends in deforestation, pollution and carbon
Andrée, Bo Pieter Johannes; Spencer, Phoebe; Chamorro, … - 2019
This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new … environmental outcomes across GDP. The analysis finds that average development is associated with an inverted 'U'-shape in … used to extrapolate environmental output to 2030. The daunting implications of continued development are a reminder that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008015
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Does media stimulate reform efforts?
Ramalho, Rita; Saltane, Valentina - 2019
This paper investigates to what extent media impacts political decisions. A viable practical approach to test the relationship between mass media and political actions is through the use of the World Bank's Doing Business data, specifically, by assessing local media coverage of Doing Business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114015
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Revised estimates of the impact of climate change on extreme poverty by 2030 : Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 background paper
Jafino, Bramka Arga; Walsh, Brian; Rozenberg, Julie; … - 2020
Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in 2030. The range of the number of people falling into poverty due to climate change is between 32 million and 132 million in most scenarios. These results are commensurate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388738