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We study how carbon dioxide (CO2) emission cuts affect income for 23 OECD countries over the 1980-2004 period. The importance of this question is manifested in the disagreements at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the 2010 State of the Union Address by United...
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One of the major shortcommings of past environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) studies is that the spatiotemporal aspects within the data have largely been ignored. By ignoring the spatial aspect of pollution emissions past estimates of the EKC implicitly assume that a region’s emissions are...
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This dissertation examines three facets of U.S. energy use and policy. First, I examine the Gulf Coast petroleum refining industry to determine the structure of the industry. Using the duality between cost-minimization and production functions, I estimate the demand for labor to determine the...
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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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This paper revisits the inequality-growth relationship accounting for sectoral differences and focusing on US counties … depends on regional income inequality and a number of control variables. Spatial econometrics techniques are used to account … inequality for the Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting sector and the Real Estate, Rental and Leasing sector. However …
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