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, for instance, from observations of social ties through networks data. This paper proposes an indicator, the Gini Exposure … index, that allows to ranks all the in-between configurations according to the level of inequality in interaction profiles … they exhibit. The Gini Exposure index extends the well-known inequality Gini coefficient to the multi-variate setting and …
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evaluations can be interpreted as special cases of dissimilarity assessments and discuss relations with concepts of segregation … income. Our aim is to assess the dissimilarity between the patterns of distributions of the different groups. These … evaluations are relevant for the analysis of multi-group segregation, socioeconomic mobility, equalization of opportunity and …
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Our research aims at analyzing de possibility of formulating a theory of firms’ network, as an organisational form … regarding the business network; in the third part we analyse the coordinates along which a theory of firm’s network could be …
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Networks are becoming an increasingly studied subject in many domains. In the present paper I intended to make a short … presentation of the networks in economics. …
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orderings that satisfy these basic properties. \ We prove that every such ordering is representable by a segregation index that …We define a segregation ordering as a ranking of cities from most segregated to least segregated. \ We propose a set of … basic properties that any reasonable segregation ordering should have. \ We then fully characterize the class of segregation …
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We analyze the impact of (alliance) network exposure on the speed and extent of adoption of the business model as being … exposure rather than social learning, the impact of regulatory effort on patterns of adoption and the role of country clusters …
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We analyze the impact of (alliance) network exposure on the speed and extent of adoption of the business model as being … exposure rather than social learning, the impact of regulatory effort on patterns of adoption and the role of country clusters …
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reduces measurement error and ensures comparability across countries and over time. The empirical results in this paper …
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Recent studies on the relationship between financial development and poverty have been inconclusive. Some claim that, by allowing more entrepreneurs to obtain financing, financial development improves the allocation of capital, which has a particularly large impact on the poor. Others argue that...
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How does fiscal policy fare in improving the underlying income distribution in Central America? We integrate the data from a number of existing tax and public expenditure studies for the countries in the region and find that the distributional effect of taxation is regressive but small. In...
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