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This article analyzes income redistribution in the inter-ethnic context. The model shows that redistribution in favor … demonstrates that income redistribution, although financed by taxes levied on the skilled, generates a mechanism that, via its …
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simulation produces a pattern of income and population growth that resembles the period of Malthusian stagnation before the …
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Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …
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This paper analyzes the impact of IRCA 1986, a U.S. amnesty, on immigrants’human capital development and labor market outcomes. Because of IRCA, the 1975-1981 arrivals were all legalized by 1990. However, many of the 1982-1986 arrivalsremained illegal. Using the California Latino immigrants in...
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positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …
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welfare on individual well-being constitutes a significant issue. This paper studies the disposable income and poverty among … disposable income and other financial and labor market outcomes and thereby give a well-founded analysis of the financial well … poverty. We conclude that leaving welfare is not always associated with becoming financially better off, and post welfare well …
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overlap in the export structure between China and high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human capital and government …
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We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as...
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This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per …
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This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...
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