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Does Job Polarization Explain the Rise in Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Europe
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2018
Earnings inequality and job polarization have increased significantly in several countries since the early 1990s. Using data from European countries covering a 20-year period, this paper provides new evidence that the decline of middle-skilled occupations and the simultaneous increase of high-...
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Productivity Growth in Europe
Dall'Olio, Andrea - 2017
This paper tests whether structural or firm-specific characteristics contributed more to (labor) productivity growth in the European Union between 2003 and 2008. It combines the Amadeus firm-level data on productivity and firm characteristics with country-level data describing regulatory...
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Debt Overhang in Emerging Europe?
Brown, Martin - 2017
This paper assesses the extent to which debt overhang poses a constraint to economic activity in Emerging Europe, as … imbalance problem for Emerging Europe has been in most cases more one of flows (high current account deficits in the pre … relatively low in Emerging Europe. At the microeconomic level, the potential for debt overhang in the corporate sector is limited …
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Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Household Welfare Impacts of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers Given to Mothers or Fathers
Akresh, Richard - 2017
This study conducted a randomized control trial in rural Burkina Faso to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on education, health, and household welfare outcomes. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
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Where They Live : District-Level Measures of Poverty, Average Consumption, and the Middle Class in Central Asia
Seitz, William Hutchins - 2019
Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the uneven spread of prosperity left many communities struggling to catch up. To support lagging regions within countries, each of the region's five national governments has made...
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Poverty, Inequality, and the Local Natural Resource Curse
Loayza, Norman - 2017
The extent to which local communities benefit from commodity booms has been subject to wide but inconclusive investigations. This paper draws from a new district-level database to investigate the local impact on socioeconomic outcomes of mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in...
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Inequality and Welfare Dynamics in the Russian Federation During 1994-2015
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2018
The Russian Federation offers the unique example of a leading centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring...
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Losing the Gains of the Past : The Welfare and Distributional Impacts of the Twin Crises in Iraq 2014
Krishnan, Nandini - 2017
Iraq was plunged into two simultaneous crises in the second half of 2014, one driven by a sharp decline in oil prices, the other, by the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The severity and recurrent nature of these crises demand a fast understanding and quantification of their...
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Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade
Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2017
The authors develop a framework for studying trade in horizontally and vertically differentiated products. In their model, consumers with heterogeneous incomes and tastes purchase a homogeneous good and make a discrete choice of quality and variety of a differentiated product. The distribution...
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Heterogeneous Returns to Income Diversification : Evidence from Nigeria
Bertoni, Eleonora - 2020
This paper investigates the impact of income diversification on farming households' welfare in Nigeria on two rounds of the Nigeria General Household Survey-Panel, namely the 2010/2011 and 2012/2013. The study finds that income diversification is the norm in Nigeria, with about 60 percent of...
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