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We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly … accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set …th and 75th percentiles enhances regional growth. This result no longer holds when we take into account changes in …
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income levels and distribution. When institutions deteriorates and inequalities increase, the incumbent undertakes … Gini coefficient and to increase average income, growth, and income of the poor. However, some non-linearites are detected …
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political economy perspective. We consider an endogenous growth economy, where growth generates pollution and a deterioration of … the environment. Public expenditures may either be devoted to supporting growth or abating pollution. The decision over …, the less she will tax and devote resources to the environment, preferring to support growth. …
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We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly … accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set …th and 75th percentiles enhances regional growth. This result no longer holds when we take into account changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839277
This paper discusses long-term trends in the macroeconomic growth performance and in income distribution in Europe and … the U.S. We review insights from the recent macroeconomic literature on inequality and growth and use these insights to … shed light on the growth and inequality trends. …
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The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards … modern industrial growth breaks that link. Recently, economic historians have presented evidence from England showing that … secular rise thereafter – must be explained both by industrial revolutionary growth forces and by global forces that opened up …
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This paper offers an alternative approach to the repeated occurrence of Middle East “energy conflicts.” Our analysis centres around the process of differential capital accumulation, emphasizing the quest to exceed the “normal rate of return” and to expands one's share in the overall flow...
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Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...
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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 model with endogenous fertility. I propose a redistribution scheme and show that refugee resettlement from a more … resettlement policy to stimulate human capital accumulation and hence economic growth in both economies. …
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