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Desigualdad, profundidad financiera e impacto en la cuenta corriente
Carrera, Jorge; Rodríguez, Esteban; Sardi, Mariano - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417928
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Inequality and Trust: Some Inequalities are More Harmful than Others
Gustavsson, Magnus; Jordahl, Henrik - 2006
We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from Swedish counties together with an instrumental variable strategy we find that differences in disposable income, and especially differences among people in the bottom half of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321606
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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality during Macroeconomic Turbulence: Sweden 1991-1999
Gustavsson, Magnus - 2002
Using a rich longitudinal database, I study the dynamics behind changes in the distribution of annual earnings in Sweden 1991 to 1999. The analysis indicates a systematic increase in persistent earnings differentials during the 1990s; workers with low relative earnings in the beginning of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321750
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Earnings losses and the role of the welfare state during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Sweden
Adermon, Adrian; Laun, Lisa; Lind, Patrik; Olsson, Martin; … - 2022
Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and pandemic measures to mitigate individual income losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014305344
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A reassessment of the use of unit labor costs as a tool for competitiveness and policy analyses in India
Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav - 2010
. This allows us to discuss the functional distribution of income. We use data from India's organized manufacturing sector … and show that while India's ULC displays a clear upward trend since 1980 (with a decline since the early 2000s), this is … exclusively the result of the increase in the price deflator used to calculate the ULC. The labor share of India's organized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286515
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Integrating south and southeast Asia through services value chain: The case of India and Thailand
Mukherjee, Arpita; Goyal, Tanu M. - 2015
services trade, investment and cooperation between South and Southeast Asia, taking the example of India and Thailand, by … analysis of the trade agreements involving India and Thailand, the paper finds that the present level of physical and people … agreement. India and Thailand have singularly liberalised key services sectors in their concluded bilateral and regional trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807707
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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028369
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Nonparametric analysis of intergenerational income mobility with application to the United States
Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2010
This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on the relationship between the incomes of parents and future earnings of their children. We focus on two different measures of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292207
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Sector-specific human capital and the distribution of earnings
Smith, Eric - 2009
This paper incorporates assignment frictions and sector-specific training into the Roy model of occupational choice. Assignment frictions represent the extent of the market whereas differences in sector-specific training reflect worker specialization. This framework thus captures Adam Smith's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292365
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Robust estimates of changes in poverty and inequality in post-independence Namibia
Levine, Sebastian; Roberts, Benjamin - 2012
The authors estimate changes in the distribution of household consumption expenditure in Namibia since Independence in 1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching techniques and apply the framework of stochastic dominance to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293269