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Three essays in empirical and experimental development economics : pro-social behavior, monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asiedu, Edward - 2014
The dissertation contributes to three important issues in development economics, i.e. corruption behavior, the monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality. The dissertation uniquely combines both empirical and experimental methods. Chapter 1 examines corruption (anti-social...
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A fresh look at an old question: Is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?
McKnight, Abigail - 2015
This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty reduction in four EU countries - the UK, Italy, Sweden and France. We use long time series (spanning four decades) to examine trends within countries over time and between...
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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare
Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2015
variables over the period 1970 to 2013. For the baseline simulation, the welfare gain for capital owners is 3.7% of per …-period consumption while workers suffer a welfare loss of 1.4%. Using counterfactual simulations, we find that both groups could have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388197
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The Marginal Utility of Income
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J. - 2007
In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income increases. One needs this parameter for cost-benefit analysis, for optimal taxation and for the (Atkinson) measurement of inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large...
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Inequality and poverty when effort matters
Ravallion, Martin - In: Econometrics 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-19
On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor supplies of American adults have a positive income...
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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
Burzynski, Michal; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991–2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … across countries and across skill groups. In relative terms, the post-crisis wave induces smaller welfare gains compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872049
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Inequity Aversion, Welfare Measurement and the Gini Index
Schmidt, Ulrich; Wichardt, Philipp Christoph - 2018
Over the last decades, research in behavioural economics has demonstrated that individual welfare (utility), as … gathering that something similar holds for aggregate welfare, i.e. that GDP alone is an insufficient predictor for various … supposedly welfare related variables on a societal level. This note shows that distributional concerns on an aggregate level can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872086
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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
Burzynski, Michal; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … across countries and across skill groups. In relative terms, the post-crisis wave induces smaller welfare gains compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931575
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Ideology, Inequality and Inequitable Trade Policies
Djerdjian, Daron O - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1
Abstract Does more wealth inequality lead to more inequitable trade policies? To answer this question, this study develops a political economy model of international trade theory and predicts that in a pro-worker regime, an increase in wealth inequality leads to more equitable trade policies. In...
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