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Perspectives on the World Income Distribution: Beyond Twin Peaks Towards Welfare Conclusions
Weisbrod, Julian; Vollmer, Sebastian; Holzmann, Hajo - 2007
obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296043
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Looking at pro-poor growth from an agricultural perspective
Klasen, Stephan; Reimers, Malte - 2016
Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455218
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Inflationary Redistribution, Trading Opportunities and Consumption Inequality
Kam, Timothy; Lee, Junsang - 2022
We study competitive search in goods markets in a heterogeneous-agent monetary model. The model accounts for three stylized facts connecting inflation to consumption inequality, to price dispersion, and to the speed of monetary payments. With competitive search, individuals’ endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294758
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Perspectives on the world income distribution: beyond twin peaks towards welfare conclusions
Holzmann, Hajo; Vollmer, Sebastian; Weisbrod, Julian - 2007
obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265084
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Globalization, literacy levels and economic development
Bhargava, Alok - 2008
This paper estimated models for GDP growth rates, poverty levels, and inequality measures for the period 1990 … population health indicators such as life expectancy were important predictors of GDP growth rates. Fourth, models for poverty … measures showed that poverty was not directly affected by globalization indicators. Finally, the model for Gini coefficients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284575
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What We Can Learn from Selected, Unmatched Data : Measuring Internet Inequality in Chicago
Saxon, James; Black, Dan - 2022
By integrating a “big” dataset of Internet Speedtest® measurements from Ookla® with data on household incomes from the American Community Survey (ACS), we attempt to measure Internet speeds across income tiers. In the Ookla data, each measurement is technically rigorous but the sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013289602
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Common and country speci c factors in the distribution of real wages
Chatzivgeri, Eleni; Mumtazy, Haroon; Tavasciz, Daniela; … - 2018
We use a dynamic factor model to consider if real wage growth in the US, UK and Germany at different percentiles of the distribution can be explained by factors that are common across countries or specific to each country. Our results suggest that common factors explain a large proportion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895003
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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth
Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210072
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In Search of The Holy Grail: How to Achieve Pro-Poor Growth?
Klasen, Stephan - 2003
Pro Poor Growth has become a central concern to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries. Despite … poor growth, then summarizing the linkages between inequality, poverty, and pro poor growth, before proceeding to analyze …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324180
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In search of the Holy Grail : how to achieve pro-poor growth?
Klasen, Stephan - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013356590