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Reversal of the Kuznets curve: Study on the inequality-development relation using top income shares data

Tuominen, Elina - 2015

This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …

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Informality and Long-Run Growth

Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - 2014

path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …

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Slavery, education, and inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2010

We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...

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Labor Market Power and Development

Armangué-Jubert, Tristany; Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, … - 2023

countries. We structurally estimate a model of oligopsony with free entry for countries at different stages of development and … the top of the development ladder. …

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Race v. suffrage: The determinants of development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011

1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …

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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results...

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Income Inequalities and their Social Determinants: an Analysis over Developed vs. Developing EU Member States

Jianu, Ionut; Gavril, Ioana Andrada; Iacob, Silvia Elena; … - In: Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies … 55 (2021) 2, pp. 125-142

This paper assesses the impact of certain social factors on income inequalities in the EU. We applied Panel Estimated Generalized Least Squares method on two clusters, developed vs developing countries. We concluded that the relationship between historical income inequality and its current...

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