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Economic Development Reduces Tolerance for Inequality : A Comparative Analysis of 30 Nations

Kelley, Jonathan; Evans, M. D. R. - 2008

Do conceptions of just rewards vary with economic development? To investigate this question we use the 1999-2000 "Inequality-III" round of the International Social Science Project together with other data in the World Inequality Study. There are 30 countries and 19 568 individual respondents in...

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Minimum Wages in Kenya

Andalon, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - 2021

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data - the last labor force survey available - indicate that...

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Developing Knowledge Society in India : Issues & Challenges

Jha, Srirang - 2012

This paper provides a conceptual overview of the knowledge society and examines issues and challenges in the way of developing knowledge society in India. It seems that the approach, action plan and model of developing knowledge society in the country are fundamentally flawed. The idea of...

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Industrial transfer policy in China : migration and development

Gerritse, Michiel; Wang, Zhiling; Oort, Frank van - 2024

China's Industrial Transfer Policy (ITP) is a novel place-based development policy of unprecedented scale. The policy targets a set of inland cities aiming to i) grow them in size and ii) restructure them into manufacturing hubs. These cities would eventually relieve pressure in China's coastal...

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"Economic development" and gender equality : explaining variations in the gender poverty gap after socialism

Fodor, Éva; Horn, Dániel - 2015

Using the 2008 cross-sectional wave of the survey Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and multi-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the...

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The identification of spatial dependence in the analysis of regional economic development - join-count test application

Pietrzak, Michał Bernard; Wilk, Justyna; Kossowski, Tomasz - 2014

. The implementation of taxonomic measure of development allows for the division of regions into homogenous classes, however … dependence. The objective of the article is to identify spatial dependence of regions covered by classes characterized by the … for quantitative data. The test application allows detecting whether the regions, within the framework of each specified …

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Informational boundaries of the state

Fetzer, Thiemo; Shaw, Callum; Edenhofer, Jacob - 2024

Formal conceptions of state capacity have mostly focused on indirect measures of state capacity - by, for instance, using the state's fiscal or extractive capacity as a proxy for its overall capacity. Yet, this input or extractive view of state capacity falls short, especially since...

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Informational boundaries of the state

Fetzer, Thiemo; Shaw, Callum; Edenhofer, Jacob - 2024

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The long-run impact of human capital on innovation and economic development in the regions of Europe

Diebolt, Claude; Hippe, Ralph - In: Applied economics 51 (2019) 5, pp. 542-563

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Overcoming left-behindedness : moving beyond the efficiency versus equity debate in territorial development

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Bartalucci, Federico; Lozano … - 2024

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