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Inter-ethnic redistribution and human investments
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009
This article analyzes income redistribution in the inter-ethnic context. The model shows that redistribution in favor of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the contributing local skilled, slows human capital...
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Post-1500 population flows and the long run determinants of economic growth and inequality
Putterman, Louis; Weil, David N. - 2008
GDP per capita and within-country income inequality in the world today. Indicators of early development such as early … do not predict income inequality as well as measures of the ethnic or linguistic heterogeneity of the current population …'s ancestors. An even better predictor of current inequality in a country is the variance of early development history of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284078
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A meta-analysis of the international gender wage gap
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
. Over time, raw wage differentials world-wide have fallen substantially; however, most of this decrease is due to an …
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Does Free Trade Really Reduce Growth? Further Testing Using the Economic Freedom Index
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik - 2003
While studies of the relationship between economic freedom and economic growth have shown it to be positive, significant and robust, it has rightly been argued that different areas of economic freedom may have quite different effects on growth. Along that line, Carlsson and Lundström (2002)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321548
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Are crises good for long-term growth? The role of political institutions
Cavallo, Alberto F.; Cavallo, Eduardo A. - 2008
This paper provides empirical evidence for the importance of institutions in determining the outcome of crises on long-term growth. Once unobserved country-specific effects and other sources of endogeneity are accounted for, political institutions affect growth through their interaction with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278293
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Words, deeds, and outcomes: A survey on the growth effects of exchange rate regimes
Harms, Philipp; Kretschmann, Marco - 2007
Recent studies on the growth effects of exchange rate regimes offer a wide range of different, sometimes contradictory results. In this paper, we systematically compare three prominent contributions in this field. Using a common data set, a common specification, and common estimation methods, we...
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Early starts, reversals and catchup in the process of economic development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
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The resource curse and its potential reversal
Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - 2012
Several recent papers suggest that the negative association between natural resource intensity and economic growth can be reversed if institutional quality is high enough. We try to understand this result in more detail by decomposing the resource measure, using alternative measures of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321368
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Takeoffs
Aizenman, Joshua; Spiegel, Mark - 2007
This paper identifies factors associated with takeoff - a sustained period of high growth following a period of stagnation. We examine a panel of 241 stagnation episodes" from 146 countries, 54 % of these episodes are followed by takeoffs. Countries that experience takeoffs average 2.3% annual...
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Distributional consequences of capital accumulation, globalisation and financialisation in the US
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2012
disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … labour share fall, while its increase in the 2000s prevented inequality from worsening three times more than it actually did …. In turn, had financialisation not increased after 2005, inequality would have decreased to its level in the early …
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