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Latin American Middle Classes: The Distance between Perception and Reality

Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Johanna - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

The main contribution of this paper with respect to previous work is the use of data on subjective perceptions to identify the Latin American middle classes. This paper provides a set of comparisons between objective and subjective definitions of middle-class using data from the 2007 World...

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Latin American Middle Classes: The Distance between Perception and Reality

Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Johanna - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper compares objective and subjective definitions of the middle-class using data from the 2007 World Gallup Poll. Seven objective income-based definitions of social class are contrasted with a self-perceived social status measure. Mismatches between the objective and subjective...

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Poverty and inequality dynamics in Uganda: Insights from the Uganda national Panel Surveys 2005/6 and 2009/10

Ssewanyana, Sarah; Kasirye, Ibrahim - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2012

While Uganda has made significant efforts in reducing the proportion of individuals and households living below the … households and as such the poor are not a homogenous group. Compared to 1992-99 period, households in Uganda were found to be … dynamics in Uganda require government to move away from universal poverty reduction interventions that continue to treat the …

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Realwert des Bruttoinlandsprodukts: Aktuelle Ergebnisse

Nierhaus, Wolfgang - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 03, pp. 52-55

Das Statistische Bundesamt berechnet seit dem Jahr 1999 neben dem realen Bruttoinlandsprodukt auch den Realwert des Bruttoinlandsprodukts. Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert Ergebnisse für das Jahr 2013 und gibt einen Ausblick auf das laufende Jahr.

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Aussteller und Besucher von Messen und Veranstaltungen der Messe München lösen jährlich bundesweit einen Umsatz von über 2,6 Mrd. Euro aus

Penzkofer, Horst - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 10, pp. 38-42

Mit Hilfe empirischer Erhebungen über veranstaltungsrelevante Ausgaben bei Ausstellern und Besuchern ausgewählter Münchner Messen und Kongresse wurden die Gesamtausgaben und darauf aufbauend sowohl die Kaufkraft-, Beschäftigungs- und Steuereffekte für ein durchschnittliches Messe- und...

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Realwert des Bruttoinlandsprodukts und Terms of Trade: Ergebnisse für 2014

Nierhaus, Wolfgang - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 68 (2015) 03, pp. 36-40

Das Statistische Bundesamt veröffentlicht neben dem preisbereinigten Bruttoinlandsprodukt auch das im Inland entstandene Realeinkommen, den Realwert des Bruttoinlandsprodukts. Mit diesem Nachweis ist in den Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen eine wichtige Datenlücke geschlossen worden. In...

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On the commutativity of expansion and substitution effects

Mantovi, Andrea - In: Journal of Economics 110 (2013) 1, pp. 83-105

The reversibility of sequential economic choices concerning production and consumption is addressed. A geometric approach to substitution effects and output/income effects is set forth in terms of vector fields on bundle space. By means of suitable fixing relations the 0-homogeneity of such...

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How Does the Oil Price Shock Affect Consumers?

Gao, Liping; Kim, Hyeongwoo; Saba, Richard - Department of Economics, Auburn University - 2013

Edelstein and Kilian (2009) point out that the oil price shock involves a reduction in consumer spending, which results in a decrease in the demand for goods and services. This paper empirically evaluates this argument by empirically investigating effects of the oil price shock on six CPI...

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Elasticity of Substitution and Farm Heterogeneity in TFP and Size: A Theoretical Framework and Empirical Application to Australian Broadacre Farms

Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2014

This paper develops a theoretical model to examine the relationship between the input elasticity of (technical) substitution and both farm total factor productivity and size. In the presence of ongoing technical change and its factor bias, the ‘income effect’ arising from farms’ cost...

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Income and Substitution Effects: Graphical Analysis for Intermediate Microeconomics

Leung, Ambrose; McGregor, Maureen; Chesney, Justin - In: Journal for Economic Educators (2014) 1

The graphical analysis of the income and substitution effects is an important part of consumer theory that is commonly taught at the level of intermediate microeconomics. Few textbooks, however, devote much discussion of these effects for perfect substitutes. The purpose of this paper is to fill...

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