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Revealing the diversity and complexity behind long-term income inequality in Latin America, 1920-2011

Astorga, Pablo - 2024

This paper analyses and documents new long-term income inequality series for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela based on dynamic social tables with four occupational groups. This enables the calculation of comparable Overall (4 groups) and Labor Ginis (3 groups) with their...

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Creative India : tapping the full potential

Kukreja, Prateek; Puri, Havishaye; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2022

creativity across India. Yet, according to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, India's creative exports are only … development among its youth; (iii) address the bottlenecks in the Intellectual Property (IP) framework; (iv) improve access to … finance; and (v) streamline the process of policymaking by establishing one intermediary organization. India must also …

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Cities as Engines of Opportunities : Evidence from Brazil

Barza, Radu; Glaeser, Edward L.; Hidalgo, César A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that...

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Inequality persistence and policymaking constraints : explaining regional data patterns

Vlaicu, Razvan - 2024

In well-functioning democracies, the policymaking process should in principle respond to persistent economic inequality with corrective policies. This process is set in motion through majority demands for redistributive taxation and spending that elected representatives eventually supply through...

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The Social Costs of Sovereign Default

Farah-Yacoub, Juan P.; Luckner, Clemens von <Graf>; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper investigates the economic and social consequences of sovereign default on external debt. We focus on the crises' impact on real per capita GDP, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty headcounts, and calorie supply per capita. After methodological exclusions, the sample covers 221...

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Differences in the labor market by gender and aggregate income

Mascarúa Lara, Miguel A. - 2024

What are the effects on the labor market and aggregate income of frictions that restrict women's labor decisions that impede labor participation and composition being equal between men and women? To answer this question, I develop an occupational general equilibrium model with heterogeneous...

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Explaining Adverse Cholesterol Levels and Distinct Gender Patterns in an Indonesian Population Compared with the U.S

Lawton, Ralph I.; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Seeman, Teresa E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In order to shed light on the biological and social drivers underlying the dramatic rise in cardiovascular disease risk in lower-income settings, links between these risks and body composition, behavioral and socioeconomic factors in Aceh, Indonesia, are contrasted with the United States. We...

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The role of fiscal policy rating variables on economic growth in the LDCs

Afonso, António; Blanco-Arana, M. Carmen - 2024

We assess empirically the role of the World Bank’s Country Policy so-called fiscal policy rating variables (fiscal rating, debt rating and revenue rating) on economic growth in the 46 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the world, during the period 1990-2022. We also investigate the role of...

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Wealth inequality and economic growth : evidence from the world inequality database

Steenbrink, Rachel; Skali, Ahmed - 2024

Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this relationship has rarely been studied empirically, with a few exceptions covering a very restricted country sample or short timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality...

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