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Technological change, economic growth, and income inequality : MSA evidence from the 1990s.
Lehman, Thomas Eric - 2004
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429615
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Growth factors in small economies: the openness impact to Lithuanian economic growth
Linkevičienė, Arūnė - 2008
openness changes to Lithuanian economy. To realize this aim the analysis of scientific literature was carried out, i.e. there … economies and differences between small economies. In the final part of this diploma paper the openness impact to economic … growth in small and large economies was examined. Also there was determined the openness impact (in point of other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009478193
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Outward-Orientation and Development: Are Revisionists Right?
Srinivasan, T.N.; Bhagwati, Jagdish - 1999
.g. Sachs and Warner (1995)) and opponents (Rodriguez and Rodrik (1999)) of the view that openness to trade is linked to higher …. It concludes that the virtues of openness established in these nuanced in-depth studies remain unrefuted. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444171
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Income Inequality and Racial/Ethnic Infant Mortality in the United States
Jesmin, Syeda Sarah - 2008
The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality rates (IMRs) for African-Americans. The conceptual framework for this study is derived from Richard Wilkinson's psychosocial environment interpretation of the income inequality and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475004
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Understanding the economic dynamics behind growth-inequality relationships
Bandyopadhyay, Debasis; Tang, Xueli - 2011
In this paper, a dynamic general equilibrium (DGE) model of growth–inequality relationships, with missing credit markets, knowledge spillover and self-employed agents, is calibrated to New Zealand data. The model explains how two distinct policy shocks involving redistribution and immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483844
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Agricultural Policy Reform and its Impact on Farm Household Income Inequality.
Mishra, Ashok; El-Osta, Hisham; Shaik, Saleem - 2010
In the United States the 1996 agricultural policy reform ushered in market-oriented farm policies and also gave farmers a seven-year lump-sum payment that was not tied to production. Some scholars argue that farm program payments have changed the distribution of income among farm households. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429553
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The effects of technical and organizational change on labor markets
Gärtner, Dennis - 2001
A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471673
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Economic internationalisation and the distribution of income : a comparison of the cases of Germany and the U.S.
Wacker, Ulrich - 2002
This study compares the effects of economic internationalisation on the functional distribution of labour income in the U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471731
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Essays on the Economics of Happiness.
Gregoire Rousseau, Jean-Benoit - 2009
The first chapter demonstrates that although it is possible to design utility functions that behave like empirical well-being, the functional forms relying on income adaptation and social comparisons put forward in the happiness literature fail to receive empirical validation. Under the income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476583
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How Does Income Inequality Affect the Growth of U.S. Counties?
Roth, Jeremy - 2010
This paper aims to conduct a precise test of the political economy hypothesis linking income inequality and economic growth. By choosing covariates from a detailed county-level dataset and assuming that U.S. counties experience perfect capital mobility, I shut off the four possible channels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429051