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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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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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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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Income and substitution effects of fiscal policy on work effort

Dalamagas, Basil - In: International Review of Applied Economics 19 (2005) 2, pp. 219-242

The focus of this paper is twofold. First, it examines the impact on work effort of changes in government purchases financed with lump-sum taxes, in a neoclassical framework, with respect to four industrialised countries. Second, it reconsiders the expenditure-work effort relationship in a...

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Dynamics of a two-sector endogenous growth model with intersectoral knowledge spillovers

Naito, Takumi; Ohdoi, Ryoji - In: Economic Theory 35 (2008) 3, pp. 599-605

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Joint Distribution of Demand Functions and Price Expectation Functions, and Structural Properties of Market Demand

Maret, Isabelle - University of Bonn, Germany - 1995

Structural Properties of the demand of a large population introduced by the aggregation process are studied. The idea is to consider assumptions on the distribution of household characteristics rather than focusing on the modelling of individual behavior. By opposite to the existing literature...

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Entry into motherhood: The effect of wages

Ariza, Alfredo; Ugidos Olazabal, Arantza - Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico … - 2007

Using the ECHP, we explored the determinants of having the first child in Spain. Our main goal was to study the relation between female wages and the decision to enter motherhood. Since the offered wage of non-working women is not observed, we estimate it and impute a potential wage to each...

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