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type="main" <p>This paper investigates the relationship between the level and the distribution of education and economic development. We contribute to the literature by introducing an interaction term between the education Gini coefficient and average years of schooling. In a dynamic panel over 55...</p>
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type="main" <p>Since 2007 Statistics Netherlands has been publishing multifactor productivity statistics at the macro and industry branch level. Updates of these statistics are annually released in StatLine, the online statistical database of Statistics Netherlands. In contrast to most other growth...</p>
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type="main" <p>Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study explores how the duration of poverty and its determinants evolved in Germany between the early 1990s and the late 2000s. To do this, we split the overall period of interest into a set of six-year long rolling windows and use...</p>
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type="main" <p>Increasing global interaction between economies over the last few decades has led to growing interest on the implications of globalization. Of particular interest has been the distributional impact of globalization and whether this has been equity enhancing. Contributing to this...</p>
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type="main" <p>GDP per capita growth rates in Russia have been amongst the highest in the world since the mid-1990s. Previous growth accounting research at the macro-level suggests that this was mainly driven by multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth. In this paper we analyze for the first time the...</p>
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type="main" <p>In this paper we consider how choices in the econometric approach to impute prices affect the Törnqvist and Jevons hedonic imputed indexes. We compare the rolling window approach to estimation by smoothing methods. The main difference between the rolling window and the smoothing...</p>
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type="main" <p>This paper proposes new measures and graphical representations of the change in bi-polarization and in the relative importance of the middle class that took place in a given country during a given period. These tools extend, in fact, the concepts of inter-distribution income...</p>
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type="main" <p>We study the daily behavior of supermarket prices and product availability following two recent natural disasters: the 2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on product availability. The number of goods...</p>
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