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A research on the effect of ICT capability on the society's welfare : multidimensional deprivation analysis including technology as attributes

Lee, Sangman - 2018

and tools such as UNDP's MPI (multidimensional poverty index) are rapidly growing. Apart from income, various attributes …Nowadays, the concept of multidimensional poverty, inequality, deprivation, and well-being is not uncommon. While … theoretical progress such as capability theory has provided rigorous framework for multidimensional analysis, empirical methods …

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How robust are estimated country welfare? : an investigation of welfare ranking, based on indices calculated using random weights.

Olsson, Michael - 2010

We measure country welfare by an index number calculated from welfare components like GDP per capita and expected … paper, I present the rank order distribution for some countries. For example: According to the human development index …

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Factor shares and the rise in corporate net lending

Behringer, Jan - 2020

The corporate sector has turned from a net borrowing position to a net lending position in many advanced countries over the past decades. This phenomenon is rather unusual as the corporate sector had historically borrowed funds from other sectors in the economy. In this paper, we analyze how...

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Aggregate and distributional effects of a carbon tax

Proebsting, Christian - NBB Conference Deglobalisation, Decarbonisation and … - 2024

To identify the households most affected by a carbon tax I set up a multi-sector model with putty-clay technology. A $100-per-ton carbon tax cuts emissions by 25% after 5 years, but reduces output by 3% in the short run and 4% in the long run. Initially, the tax is progressive despite poorer...

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Labor market polarization and intergenerational mobility : theory and evidence

Hennig, Jan-Luca - 2021

In this paper I investigate the causal relationship between labor market polarization and intergenerational mobility, two of the most important features of advanced labor markets in recent decades. The former relates to the disappearance of middle-wage routine jobs and the rise of both high- and...

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Allocating collective expenditure : the case of education

Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2021

Creating distributional national accounts (DINA; e.g. Piketty, Saez, and Zucman 2018) requires the allocation of all government expenditure to individuals in order to compute their post-tax, post-transfer income. A sizeable part of government expenditure is in-kind spending, either in the form of...

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Spatial distribution dynamics

Gerolimetto, Margherita; Magrini, Stefano - 2015 - Very preliminary version, this version: June 12, 2015

It is quite common in convergence analyses across regions that data exhibit strong spatial dependence. While the literature adopting the regression approach is now fully aware that neglecting this feature may lead to inaccurate results and has therefore suggested a number of statistical tools...

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An urban accounting for geographic concentration of skill and welfare inequality

Fu, Yuming; Hao, Yang - 2015 - (Preliminary version)

Using Jones (2014) generalized human capital accounting, we extend the urban accounting model of Desmet and Rossi-Hansberg (2013) to account for the geographic distribution of skills across US metropolitan areas. The methodology allows the productivity of high-skill workers to depend on location...

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Spatial and social mobility

Borck, Rainald; Wrede, Matthias - 2015 - This version: February 28, 2015, preliminary and incomplete

This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial equilibrium model of two regions with location preferences where each region consists of an urban area which is home to workplaces and residences and an exclusively residential...

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Trade and interregional inequality

Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - 2013 - This version: February 20, 2013

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. While most studies focus on single countries and only some use a small panel of countries, we use the two largest databases available to examine these issues. One database is provided...

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