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The Chinese economy: How much market - how much state?

Taube, Markus - In: CESifo Forum 06 (2005) 3, pp. 3-7

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Equivalence scales reconsidered: an empirical investigation

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007

Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....

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Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007

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Unemployment, Education and Earnings Growth

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth from the experience of unemployment. This result...

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For one more year with you: changes in compulsory schooling, education and the distribution of wages in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo - 2007

Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational...

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The effects of taxes and benefits on income distribution in the enlarged EU

Paulus, Alari; Čok, Mitja; Figari, Francesco; … - 2009

Eastern European countries (Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia). We use EUROMOD, the European tax-benefit microsimulation …

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Income polarization and economic growth

Brzezinski, Michal - 2013

This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more than 70 countries during the 1960-2005 period. We calculate various polarization indices using existing micro-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on...

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Determinants of income inequality and its effects on economic growth: Evidence from African countries

Odedokun, Matthew O.; Round, Jeffery I. - 2001

The paper empirically investigates, in the context of African countries, the determinants of income distribution and inequality, the effect of inequality on economic growth, and the channels through which inequality affects growth. Data for 35 countries over different periods in the last four...

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Growth and equity in Finland

Jäntti, Markus; Saari, Juho; Vartiainen, Juhana - 2006

This paper reviews Finnish economic history during the ‘long’ twentieth century with a special emphasis on policies for equity and growth. We argue that Finland developed from a poor, vulnerable, and conflict-prone country to a modern economy in part through policies geared at both growth...

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A two-thirds rate of success: Polish transformation and economic development, 1989 - 2008

Kolodko, Grzegorz W. - 2009

abilities of the relevant country. In Poland, during 20 years of comprehensive systemic shift, GDP increased more than in any … competitiveness or in growth in terms of quantity, but also social and cultural aspects should be taken into account. In Poland, there … theories. Poland's transformation can be seen as a success, but only to the extent of achieving two-thirds of its potential. …

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