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Multidimensional Welfare Comparisons of EU Member States Before, During, and After the Financial Crisis: A Dominance Approach

Hussain, M. Azhar; Siersbæk, Nikolaj; Lars Peter, Østerdal - 2018

How did the financial crisis affect population welfare in EU member states in key dimensions such as income, health, and education? We seek to answer this question by way of welfare comparisons between countries and within countries over time,using EU-SILC data. Our study is novel in using a...

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A comparison of German and Indian innovation pathways in the auto component industry

Kalogerakis, Katharina; Fischer, Luise; Tiwari, Rajnish - 2017

This paper is a part of a series of analyses conducted within a BMBF-funded research project to investigate potentials of frugal innovations for Germany. One of the objectives of this project has been to identify innovation pathways that foster frugal innovations. Since auto component suppliers...

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The question of a frugal mindset in Western MNCs : exploring an emerging phenomenon with a systematic literature review

Krohn, Malte; Herstatt, Cornelius - 2018

Frugal innovation in the context of developed ecomomies has witnessed increasing interest in recent years. For Western multinational companies (MNCs) emerging markets represent promising opportunities for growth as well as the threat of new local competitors. Furthermore, economic developments...

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Path dependence, institutions and the density of economic activities : evidence from Italian cities

Percoco, Marco - 2010 - This draft: December 2009

In recent years a growing body of literature has begun to consider the possible presence of path dependence in the development processes of countries. This phenomenon has always been recognized in regional and urban studies because the path of development almost naturally follows a...

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On Using Pareto Distributions for Measuring Top-Income Gender Disparities

Hansen, Niels-Jakob Harbo; Harmenberg, Karl; Öberg, Erik; … - 2019

Atkinson et al. (2018) propose a measure of the glass ceiling exploiting that top incomes are approximately Pareto distributed. We clarify how this glass-ceiling coefficient describes the increasing scarcity of women further up in the income distribution and show how it relates to the top-income...

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Wage differences between immigrants and natives in Austria : the role of literacy skills

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Gnan, Phillipp - 2017

immigrants. When adding literacy skills to the wage decomposition, the discriminatory part vanishes completely, suggesting that …

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The gap that survived the transition : the gender wage gap over three decades in Estonia

Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021

This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of rapid economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and micro data from the Labour Force Survey from 1989 to 2020 are employed. The communist regimes had highly regulated...

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Source - assembly - sink : value added flows in the global economy

Stehrer, Robert - 2021

In this paper we provide a method to characterise global value chains and a related decomposition of bilateral gross … simple framework using matrix algebra allowing for intuitive interpretations of the individual decomposition terms and … results. The approach leads to a novel decomposition of bilateral gross export flows and related value-added trade indicators …

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Flickering lifelines: Electrification and household welfare in India

Sedai, Ashish Kumar; Nepal, Rabindra; Jamasb, Tooraj - 2020

Access to reliable energy is central to improvements in living standards and is a Sustainable Development Goal. This study moves beyond counting the electrified households and examines the effect of the hours of electricity households receives on their welfare. We hypothesize that additional...

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Corruption, income inequality, and poverty in the United States

Dincer, Oguzhan C.; Gunalp, Burak - 2008

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an objective measure of corruption: the number of...

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