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The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality
Biewen, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the dynamics of equivalent income in … persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822659
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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125619
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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
penetration. Keywords: cross-section models, income distribution, inequality, international economic order, economic welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556011
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The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Mexico, 1989–2010
Campos, Raymundo; Esquivel, Gerardo; Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market forces (demand and supply of labour by skill), institutional factors (minimum wages and unionization rate), and public policy (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878123
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Long Run Trends in Australian Executive Remuneration: BHP 1887-2012
Pottenger, Mike; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Outside the US, little is known of long-run trends in executive compensation. We fill this gap by studying BHP, a resources giant that has long been one of the largest companies on the Australian stock market. From 1887 to 2013, trends in CEO and director remuneration (relative to average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884303
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Income inequality and social preferences for redistribution and compensation differentials
Kerr, William R. - Suomen Pankki - 2013
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945116
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Has the income share of the middle and upper-middle been stable over time, or is its current homogeneity across the world the outcome of a process of convergence? The 'Palma Ratio'...
Palma, José Gabriel - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
the argument for such a measure. Using new data, I examine whether the current remarkable homogeneity in the income share … appropriate about 50 per cent of the national income). Although partly written in response to a comment on my 2011 paper, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010949350
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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality in EU, 1994-2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
This paper uses ECHP for 14 EU countries to explore the dynamic structure of individual earnings and the extent to which changes in cross-sectional earnings inequality reflect transitory or permanent components of individual lifecycle earnings variation. Increases in inequality reflect increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018720
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The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Mexico, 1989-2010
Campos, Raymundo; Esquivel, Gerado; Lustig, Nora - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market forces (demand and supply of labour by skill), institutional factors (minimum wages and unionization rate), and public policy (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538773
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Can sustainable poverty reduction be achieved with little or no economic growth? The case of Jamaica
Medvedev, Denis; Mustafaoglu, Zafer; Lagerborg, Andresa; … - In: Review of Economics and Institutions 4 (2013) 1
Can poverty decline with little growth in real GDP? This paper examines the case of Jamaica, where the poverty headcount halved between 2003 and 2007 despite real per capita GDP growth of just 1.1 percent per year, by analyzing the factors contributing to the observed reduction in poverty using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610570