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LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT: INCOME DYNAMICS AND THE EVOLVING POLITICAL PREFERENCES OF FORWARD-LOOKING BAYESIAN VOTERS
Carter, Michael; Morrow, John - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. While the implications of upward mobility for the political preferences of forward-looking voters have been...
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Economic Science and Political Influence
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
institutes, the extent to which intellectual competition between different schools of thought may lead to polarization of views …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604107
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A stochastic independence approach for different measures of concentration and specialization
HAEDO, Christian; MOUCHART, Michel - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2012
From data in the form of a two-way contingency table “Regions _ Sectors”, the concepts of specialization and concentration, built from the analysis of conditional distributions or profiles, is based on discrepancies among distributions: between profiles and a uniform distribution for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610465
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Income polarization and economic growth
Brzeziński, Michał - Narodowy Bank Polski - 2013
This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more … than 70 countries during the 1960–2005 period. We calculate various polarization indices using existing micro … Database. The results garnered for our preferred sample of countries suggest that income polarization has a negative impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633889
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Dynamic Collective Choice with Endogenous Status Quo
Dziuda, Wioletta; Loeper, Antoine - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2010
This paper analyzes an ongoing bargaining situation in which i) preferences evolve overtime, ii) the interests of individuals are not perfectly aligned, and iii) the previous agreement becomes the next status quo and determines the payoffs until a new agreement is reached. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804604
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Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure
Firpo, Sergio; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854763
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Post-Conflict Recovery; Institutions, Aid, or Luck?
David, Antonio; Bastos, Fabiano Rodrigues; Mills, Marshall - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper identifies the factors linked to cross-country differentials in growth performance in the aftermath of social conflict for 30 sub-Saharan African countries using panel data techniques. Our results show that changes in the terms of trade are the most important correlate of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151208
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Down and Out or Up and In? Polarization-Based Measures of the Middle Class for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Calva, Luis Felipe López; … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2011
class which is based on sound principles of distributional analysis and derived from income polarization measures. The … of the extent and evolution of the middle classes since the early 1990s in six Latin American countries. The polarization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897708
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Political Polarization and the Dynamics of Political Language: Evidence from 130 Years of Partisan Speech
Jensen, Jacob; Kaplan, Ethan; Naidu, Suresh; … - In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 45 (2012) 2 (Fall), pp. 1-81
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010900598
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Convergence empirics across economies with (some) capital mobility
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995
appropriate, polarization and clumping within subgroups. The data show little cross-country convergence; in- stead, the important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928695