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Offshoring, reshoring, unemployment, and wage dynamics in a two-country evolutionary model
Radi, Davide; Lamantia, Fabio; Bischi, Gian Italo - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 25 (2021) 3, pp. 705-732
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505470
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Linking representative household models with household surveys for poverty analysis : a comparison of alternative methodologies
Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Chen, Derek H.C.; Grimm, Michael - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
The authors compare three approaches to linking representative-household macro models with micro household income data in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of policy shocks. These approaches are a simple micro-accounting method, an extension of that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079525
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Life during growth : international evidence on quality of life and per capita income
Easterly, William - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999
, education, individual rights and democracy, political instability and war, transport and communications, inequality across class …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079748
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Building and running general equilibrium models in EViews
Essama-Nssah - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
A crucial step in policy analysis involves computing consequences of policy actions. The author shows how to implement numerically a general equilibrium model in EViews. Computable general equilibrium models are now commonly used in both industrial and developing countries to assess the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079857
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Household income dynamics in rural China
Jalan, Jyotsna; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001
income shock is appreciably slower for the poor than for others. They also find that current inequality reducesfuture growth … in mean incomes, though the"growth cost"of inequality appears to be small. The maximum contribution of inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079964
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Does Liberte = Egalite ? A survey of the empirical links between democracy and inequality with some evidence on the transition economies
Mark, Gradstein.; Milanovic, Branko - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002
The effect of the distribution of political rights on income inequality has been studied both theoretically and … high degree of economic inequality. And democratization in the form of franchise expansion has typically led to an … other measures of democracy, based on civil liberties and political rights, and inequality. The transition experience of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005080175
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Reputation matters : spillover effects in the enforcement of US SPS measures
Jouanjean, Marie-Agnes; Maur, Jean-Christophe - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
This paper uses a novel dataset on United States food import refusals to show that reputation is an important factor in the enforcement of sanitary and phytosanitary measures. The strongest reputation effect comes from a country's own history of compliance in relation to a particular product....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391907
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Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990-2010
Gasparini, Leonardo; Galiani, Sebastian; Cruces, Guillermo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009394288
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Relative deprivation, reference groups and the assessment of standard of living
Silber, Jacques; Verme, Paolo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
This paper proposes two new indices of relative deprivation, derived from an extension of the concept of the generalized Gini for the measurement of distributional change. Population- and income-weighted relative deprivation indices are then defined and, using panel data from the Consortium of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009394292
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Income shocks reduce human capital investments : evidence from five east European countries
Dasgupta, Basab; Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
This paper empirically investigates whether households affected by income shocks cope by reducing human capital investments. The analysis uses Crisis Response Surveys conducted in Armenia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and Turkey during 2009 and 2010. A propensity score matching technique is...
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