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The importance of measuring dispersion in firm-level outcomes : ignoring the large variation in firm-level outcomes can create misunderstandings about the consequences of many poli...
Syverson, Chad - 2014
Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417130
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Foreign capital, inflation, sterilization, crowding-out and growth : some illustrative models
Singh, Nirvikar; Srinivasan, Thirukodikaval N. - 2004
This paper discusses some puzzles in the contemporary macroeconomic scene in India, from the perspective of public finance and economic development. These include a fiscal deficit higher than it was during the 1991 crisis, but without a large current account deficit or rise in inflation or...
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(Re-)distribution of personal incomes, education and economic performance across countries
Rehme, Günther - 2002
partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined … income data from the Luxembourg Income Study suggests that there is a negative relationship between growth and income …
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Dualism and cross-country growth regressions
Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a … factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than … labour can explain a significant fraction of the international variation in TFP growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451098
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The heterogeneous relationship between income and inequality : a panel co-integration approach
Flechtner, Svenja; Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius - 2019
We study the relationship between per-capita income and income inequality with a heterogeneous panel co-integration approach.We extend previous studies in two respects: first, we compile a more extensive data set for 61 countries over 26-51 years and consider measures for both pre-tax and...
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...
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The inequality-growth plateau
Henderson, Daniel J.; Qian, Junhui; Wang, Le - 2015
We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require …
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Economic growth, income distribution and poverty : time-series and cross-country evidence from the CFA-zone countries of sub-Saharan Africa
Bleaney, Michael F.; Nishiyama, Akira - 2004
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Uncovering the impact of intergenerational income mobility on interpersonal trust
Shaleva, Anna E. - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 15, pp. 1-17
Alluding to theories about relative economic status and behavior, this paper studies if relative income mobility, or the intergenerational change in income positions, affects interpersonal trust. Empirically, the question is brought down to an application with US General Social Survey data. For...
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The primacy of institutions reconsidered : the effects of malaria prevalence in the empirics of development
Carstensen, Kai; Gundlach, Erich - 2005 - Revised, August 2005
Some recent empirical studies deny any direct performance effects of measures of geography and conclude that institutions trump all other potential determinants of development. For given effects of institutional quality, our empirical results indicate quantitatively important direct negative...
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