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Economists and demographers have long argued that fertility differs by income (differential fertility), and that social security creates incentives for people to rear fewer children. Does the effect of social security on fertility differ by income? How does social security change the...
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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight …
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distribution, growth and international specialization. The model is explored both for the steady-state properties and the … transitory dynamics of integrated economies. Income inequality affects the patterns of growth and international specialization as …
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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
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production and consumption, on long run economic growth and income distribution. To accomplish with such a broad aim, we develop … of the structural conditions; we graphically show that the main determinants of endogenous economic growth and takeoff …; simplified scenarios are identified via numerical simulations, in which patterns of aggregate growth are obtained as an emerging …
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, income distribution influences the stringency of environmental policy and consequently the growth of a country. Individuals … inequality, environmental protection, and growth. …
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This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the … carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with economic growth. We show that the results heavily depend on the …
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This paper examines the link between pollution and income. It shows how income inequality affects environmental policies and therefore pollution. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes that there is an inverted U-shape relation between environmental degradation and income per...
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growth dynamics. We find multiple politico-economic regimes where the pressure for redistribution is highly non …
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uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It … impact of higher inequality on the aggregate human capital stock, and thus, on growth may be positive. This result rests on …
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