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This paper proposes a simple variation of the Allingham and Sandmo (1972) construct and integrates it to a dynamic general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous agents. We study an overlapping generations framework i n which agents must initially decide whether to evade taxes or not. In the...
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complete adoption of more productive technologies. The issue of increasing income inequality in the process of technology … adoption opens up another direction for research. Specifically increasing inequality implies that distributive conflicts may … issues. Without any political considerations, taxes would leads to a reduction in inequality and convergence of incomes …
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, evidenced by ad hoc assumptions of cooperative wealth maximization. By integrating the underlying structure of inequality with …
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Surprisingly little is known about the impact of resource booms on income inequality in resource rich countries. This … explain the time path of inequality following a resource boom. Under plausible conditions, we find that income inequality will … initial impact of the boom on inequality disappears. Using panel cointegration methodology for a sample of 90 countries …
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This paper aims to deepen our understanding of the determinants of income inequality in Uganda. Over the past 10 years … contribution of each income source to overall inequality; (ii) Decomposition of consumption expenditure into subgroups in order to … examine the contribution of each subgroup to overall inequality using their between- and within-subgroup components, both …
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Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries during the 1980s and … development. This article uses a measure of income inequality derived from taxation statistics and a recently proposed method for … testing long-run Granger non-causality to examine the key determinants of Australia's inequality for the years 1970–2001. In …
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show that income inequality of reference group of husbands in age-regional cross sections can be a predictor of their wives …
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The institutional structure of global commodity chains and cross-border production networks has a profound impact on how the benefits of globalized production are distributed. This paper engages with this issue by developing a model that combines the insights of earlier unequal exchange...
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"In order to halt resource degradation of the high value sea snail ‘loco’ (Concholepas concholepas), the Chilean state in the late 1990s institutionalised commons – Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURFs), which since then have had varying results, especially in economic terms....
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"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of individual extraction decisions and payoffs we conjecture that subjects will imitate the most successful players’ strategy as long as their payoffs increase. We derive a stable...
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