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Has the income share of the middle and upper-middle been stable over time, or is its current homogeneity across the world the outcome of a process of convergence? The 'Palma Ratio'...
Palma, José Gabriel - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
In an article published in Development and Change in 2011, I suggested an alternative measure of inequality to the Gini … article has evolved to become a further attempt at contributing to the literature on inequality and the statistics to measure … it. As in my 2011 paper, in this one I also conclude that if we want to understand why inequality is so unequal across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010949350
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A comparative portrait of long-run racial disparity in the United States and Brazil
Bucciferro, Justin R. - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 2, pp. 84-110
inequality over time, meaning that discrimination or other unobserved factors have become more-substantial determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014465593
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Spillover effects of the US economic policy uncertainty in Latin America
Coronado, Semei; Martínez, José; Venegas-Martínez, … - In: Estudios de economía 47 (2020) 2, pp. 273-293
This paper is aimed at assessing the spillover effects of the US Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) in macroeconomic variables of major Latin American Countries (LAC): Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and Chile. To do that, we estimate a set of two-country Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) models...
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China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
van der Weide, Roy; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
their levels of development, the US and China report remarkably similar levels of socioeconomic mobility; a level that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423987
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Fast methods for jackknifing inequality indices
Karoly, Lynn A.; Schröder, Carsten - 2013
time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226100
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Tale of two ginis in the United States, 1921 - 2012
Schneider, Markus; Tavani, Daniele - 2015
United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income … to be mostly explained by an increase in inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, which more than offsets the … decrease in inequality at the top. The implication is that middle incomes gained relative to high incomes, but especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462516
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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
their levels of development, the US and China report remarkably similar levels of socioeconomic mobility; a level that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161622
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Trends in U.S. wage inequality : revising the revisionists : a replication study of Autor, Katz, and Kearney (The review of economics and statistics, 2008)
Stephenson, Corinne - In: Journal of comments and replications in economics 3 (2024), pp. 1-26
extension to an additional 17 years of analysis underscores the original finding that rising wage inequality was not an episodic … event of the 1980s. That being said, overall 90/10 inequality and the college wage premium have plateaued since 2005 …. Despite overall inequality plateauing, upper- tail 90/50 inequality has continued to increase since 1980 for both men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548976
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La Chine et l'Amérique latine : le grand chambardement ?
Arès, Mathieu; Deblock, Christian; Lin, Ting-Sheng - In: Revue Tiers-Monde n°208 (2011) 4, pp. 65-82
situation raises important questions, both regarding development patterns and the future of bilateral relationships. Both issues … are currently contingent on the Chinese authorities and their vision of development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011187763
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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : critical questions
Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 5, pp. 1-16
entrepreneurship in the process of economic development. In doing so, we show that the standard policy response to migrants and migrant … the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super … development in both sending and receiving countries, not least through reducing the shares of migrants that are reluctant …
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