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Real Origins of the Great Depression: Monopolistic Competition, Union Power, and the American Business Cycle in the 1920s

Ebell, Monique; Ritschl, Albrecht - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

Most treatments of the Great Depression have focused on its onset and its aftermath. In contrast, we take a unified view of the interwar period. We look at the slide into and the emergence from the 1920-21 recession and the roaring 1920s boom, as well as the slide into the Great Depression after...

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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...

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A simple model of inequality, occupational choice, and development

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Jiang, Neville Nien-Huei - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

We analyze a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit marketimperfections. We examine the effect of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, andhistory, in terms of the initial wealth distribution, in determining the long-term wealth...

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Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, IncomeDistribution and Social Welfare

Dasgupta, Indraneel - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2008

public good is pure, any given, positive level of income inequality can beshown to be socially excessive by suitably … redistribution from the rich tothe poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo... …

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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution ofMarket Income in Germany, 1992-2001

Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient... …

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Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Riskand Consumption Inequality

Primiceri, Giorgio E.; Rens, Thijs van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to anincrease in the variance of … lifecyclechanges, transitory and permanent shocks and estimate the contribution of each tototal inequality... …

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Goodness-of-Fit: An Economic Approach

Cowell, Frank A.; Flachaire, Emmanuel; Bandyopadhyay, … - London School of Economics and Political Science; Pôle …; … - 2009

Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions;goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriatein the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion based onthe EDF, an aggregation of differences in...

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Inequality and the State

Hills, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

That Britain became more unequal in the last quarter century is well known; the scale of change, less so.At the end of the 1970s, the richest tenth received 21 per cent of total disposable income. This rose to 28-29per cent by 2002-03, as much as the whole of the bottom half. More than half of...

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Changes in earnings inequality and mobility in Great Britain 1978/9-2005/6

Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - 2008

This paper examines changes in earnings inequality and mobility between 1978/9 and 2005/6 using a unique dataset that … significant increases in annual earnings inequality for both male and female employees. On most measures this is greater for men …. When wider inequality is measured including periods of no earnings, inequality for men increases and for women it falls as …

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Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China

Li, Bingqin; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is …

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