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This survey reviews the literature on the political economy of financial structure, broadly defined to include the size of capital markets and banking systems as well as the distribution of access to external finance across firms.The theoretical literature on the institutional basis for...
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Rajan and Zingales (1998) use U.S. Compustat firm data for the 1980s to obtain measures of manufacturing sectors? Dependence on External Finance (DEF). They take any differences in these measures to be structural/technological and thus applicable to other countries. Their joint assumptions about...
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of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …
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, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …Die Wahl einer passenden Äquivalenzskala ist Voraussetzung für Vergleiche der Einkommensverteilung ökonomischer …
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Einkommensverteilung, zur Ungleichheit und zur Armut. Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier stellt Äquivalenzskalen auf der Basis von Konsum …, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …
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inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen …
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Much of America's promise is predicated on the existence of economic mobilitythe idea that people are not limited or defined by where they start, but can move up the economic ladder based on their efforts and accomplishments. Family income mobilitychanges in individual families' real incomes...
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This paper provides an overview of poverty in North America. In it we look at the three countries of North America …, Mexico, the US, and to a lesser extent Canada and attempt to both describe poverty as it exists in the three countries and … explore some of the correlates of poverty. In doing so, we attempt to bring together the concepts and approaches used mostly …
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For a long time conventional wisdom held that income inequality enhances investment and work incentives and thereby is good for economic growth. In the 1990s this view was turned on its head, as a number of empirical analyses found an association between inequality and slower growth across large...
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This paper studies the effects of remittances from the U.S. on child labor and school attendance in recipient Mexican …
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