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The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality rates (IMRs) for African-Americans. The conceptual framework for this study is derived from Richard Wilkinson's psychosocial environment interpretation of the income inequality and...
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The first chapter demonstrates that although it is possible to design utility functions that behave like empirical well-being, the functional forms relying on income adaptation and social comparisons put forward in the happiness literature fail to receive empirical validation. Under the income...
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This paper aims to conduct a precise test of the political economy hypothesis linking income inequality and economic growth. By choosing covariates from a detailed county-level dataset and assuming that U.S. counties experience perfect capital mobility, I shut off the four possible channels...
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This study focuses on testing the relationship between income inequality and growth within U.S. counties, and the channels through which such effects are observed. The study tests three hypotheses: (1) income inequality has an inverse relationship with growth; (2) regional growth adjustments are...
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Wirtschaftswachstum, Arbeitsplätzen und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit auf den Weltmärkten. Ziel der Lissabon-Strategie, eines wichtigen …
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part of this paper studies the transition process in China and Vietnam from a planned economy to a free market economy. The … some elements of a free market, has boosted the growth rate in both China and Vietnam, and increased considerably the … standard of living of people in the two countries. China and Vietnam’s amazing achievements raise the question about what …
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Incluye bibliografía ; In this paper we provide an overview of the growth model in China and its prospects, taking a … managed capitalism in China tends to engender, as an inherent byproduct, serious imbalances which cannot be unwound without a … in China are likely to remain supportive, at least over the medium run. Although this could help mitigate the economic …
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electricity generation sector in China was chosen to demonstrate the economic impact of possible emissions control on the …. Data comes from the China Statistical Yearbook and China Electric Power Yearbook, providing the provincial information for …
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Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...
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Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477427