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The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

results from different case studies are presented. These results are further contrasted to those obtained based on the World … the concepts, measurement and decomposition of inequality, the world distribution of income and inequality measured at … those based on the World Income Inequality Database. Research on the world income inequality supports increased awareness of …

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Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

. We investigate the economic disparity between regions of the world and among countries within each continent or …

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The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalisation and show how globalisation has developed over time for different...

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What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? : A Re-Examination Using PISA Data

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...

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Nascent Entrepreneurs

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who they are, what makes them different, and …

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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004

World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility … towards new immigrants of lower quality, public assessment of the impact of those immigrants on a deteriorating labor market …, political participation of those impacted, and, as a triggering mechanism, the sudden shocks to the labor market delivered by …

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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2004

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...

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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004

One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L?Esprit des Lois, argued, ?peace is the...

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Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

between inequality and growth in the post World War II period using WIDER inequality database. Regression results suggest that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262079

North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the ?Natural Trading Partners? Hypothesis

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2004

Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a RTA is more likely to raise welfare if member countries are ?natural trading partners,? while other studies claim the opposite. This paper considers the argument from a dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with...

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