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Azerbaijan's Household Survey Data : Explaining Why Inequality is so Low
Ersado, Lire - 2016
While the Azerbaijan household income and expenditure survey (HIES) data satisfy most empirical regularities expected … extremely low even with the standard of countries generally considered as most equal in the world. Azerbaijan, a transitional … paper is to investigate why inequality measures are unusually low in the Azerbaijan household survey data. The author …
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Returns to Education in Azerbaijan : Some New Estimates
Garcia Moreno, Vicente A. - 2020
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan … to schooling in Azerbaijan since 1995. The returns to schooling are 6 percent for men and 8 percent for women, even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843340
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South Caucasus in Motion : Economic and Social Mobility in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
Tiwari, Sailesh - 2018
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of economic and social mobility in countries in the South Caucasus by complementing available household survey data in each of the countries in the subregion with other sources, such as the Life in Transition Survey (2016). The first part of the paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928217
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When Do Gender Wage Differences Emerge? A Study of Azerbaijan's Labor Market
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969711
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Creating a Poverty Map for Azerbaijan
Baschieri, Angela; Falkingham, Jane; Hornby, Duncan; … - 2014
indices, using existing census data. This paper develops a set of poverty maps for Azerbaijan that can be used by different … welfare in Azerbaijan, this paper has also produced a digital census map of Azerbaijan. This involved matching the census … enumeration areas to a digital settlement map of Azerbaijan. Therefore, it is now possible for the State Statistical Committee of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060182
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Macroeconomic Effects of Terms-of-Trade Shocks : The Case of Oil-Exporting Countries
Spatafora, Nikola - 2017
The authors investigate the impact on economic growth and development of long-run movements in the external terms of trade, with special reference to the experience of 18 oil-exporting countries between 1973 and 1989. They argue that this sample approximates a controlled experiment for examining...
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Nigeria's Growth Record : Dutch Disease or Debt Overhang?
Pang, Gaobo - 2016
Nigeria's oil boom has not brought an end to perennial stagnation in the non-oil economy. Is this the unavoidable consequence of the resource boom or have misguided policies contributed? This paper indicates that the extreme volatility of expenditure rather than Dutch Disease effects are behind...
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The Political Economy of Direct Dividend Transfers in Resource-Rich Countries : A Theoretical Consideration
McGuirk, Eoin - 2017
The acceleration of natural resource discoveries across many parts of the developing world has highlighted the urgent need for solutions to the mismanagement of windfalls that has blighted many countries over the past half-century. One proposal involves distributing annually a share of resource...
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Do Resource-Rich Countries Suffer from a Lack of Fiscal Discipline?
Bleaney, Michael - 2017
Fiscal indicators for resource-rich and resource-poor low- and middle-income countries are compared using annual data from 1996 to 2012. Resource richness is defined by export composition: fuel greater than a 25 percent share and/or ores and metals greater than a 10 percent share. Fuel exporters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970120
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Budget Rules and Resource Booms : A Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Analysis
Devarajan, Shantayanan - 2017
This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to analyze and derive simple budget rules in the face of volatile public revenue from natural resources in a low-income country like Niger. The simulation results suggest three policy lessons or rules of thumb. When a resource...
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