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Inequality, environmental protection and growth
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, T. I. - 2000
, income distribution influences the stringency of environmental policy and consequently the growth of a country. Individuals … inequality, environmental protection, and growth. …
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Risky human capital investment, income distribution, and macroeconomic dynamics
Grossmann, Volker - 2003
uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It … impact of higher inequality on the aggregate human capital stock, and thus, on growth may be positive. This result rests on …
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Unified growth based on the specific factors model
Caspari, Volker; Pertz, Klaus - 2008
The two-sector specific factor model is typically used in the theory of international trade where it helps to clarify …
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Inequality and aggregate savings in the neoclassical growth model
Foellmi, Reto - 2010
Within the context of the neoclassical growth model I investigate the implications of (initial) endowment inequality …
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Adverse geography and differences in welfare in Peru
Escobal, Javier; Torero, Máximo - 2003
In Peru, a country with an astonishing variety of different ecological areas, with 84 different climate zones and landscapes, with rainforests, high mountain ranges and dry deserts, the geographical context may not be all that matters, but it could be very significant in explaining regional...
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Managerial versus production wages: Offshoring, country size and endowments
Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2011
We explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well ollshoring of tasks for inequality both within and between countries. We emphasize the distinction between managerial and production labor. Managerial labor is a fixed input while production labor is a variable input. Following...
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Managerial versus production wages: Offshoring, country size and endowments
Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2010
In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality both within and between countries. We emphasize the distinction between managerial and production labor. Production labor is assumed to be a variable input composed of tradable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275053
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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through his pioneering focus on labor market experience or on-the-job training. It begins with a brief discussion of the theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the...
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The shape of the income distribution and economic growth: Evidence from Swedish labor market regions
Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2011
We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly … accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set …th and 75th percentiles enhances regional growth. This result no longer holds when we take into account changes in …
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Regional inequality and convergence in Europe, 1995 - 2005
Melchior, Arne - 2008
The paper presents new results on within-country regional inequality in per capita income for 36 countries during 1995-2005; focusing on Europe but with some non-European countries included for comparison. In 23 of the 36 countries there was a significant increase in regional inequality during the...
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