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Growth, Inequality and Well-Being: Comparisons across Space and Time

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...

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Growth, Inequality, and Well-Being: Intertemporal and Global Comparisons

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

. Our global analysis covering ca. 81 per cent of the world's population demonstrates that global well-being is at least 50 … per cent smaller than world per capita income if the unequal income distribution is also factored in. Conversely, growth … in world well-being has been larger than world income growth between 1970-1998. Since the inclusion of inequality has an …

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Does aging influence sectoral employment shares? Evidence from panel data

Thießen, Ulrich; Kholodilin, Konstantin Arkadievich; … - 2008

In this study, we investigate whether population aging influences employment shares in different economic sectors. To this end, we employ dynamic panel data analysis. Our unbalanced data set comprises 54 countries and extends to a maximum time period from 1970 till 2004. Our results suggest that...

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The impact of financial openness on the size of utility-enhancing government

Erauskin, Iñaki - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-38, pp. 1-56

In this paper, we employ a portfolio approach based on a two-country world to study the impact of financial openness on …

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International mobility of the highly skilled: Brain gain, brain drain or brain exchange

Straubhaar, Thomas - 2000

USA attracts highly skilled people from all over the world because of a number of natural as well as artificial benefits …

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A Framework for Fragmentation

Jones, Ronald W. - 2000

The word fragmentation refers to a splitting up of a verticallyintegrated production process such that the separatefragments can be traded on markets. This paper is concerned withinternational fragmentation, generally allowing gainsfrom a finer division of labor based on comparative advantage...

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Globalisation and Nature Policy: An Integrated Environmental-Economic Framework

van der Heide, C. Martijn; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; … - 1999

The search for a framework to study globalisation, economics and ecology for nature conservation andbiodiversity protection requires the integration of concepts, theories and models from economics andecology. This allows for the study of interactions between economic and ecological processes,...

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Factors influencing the Composition of the Urban Transport System in the Year 2030 - A Panel Analysis of Experts' Opinions

Gorter, Cees; Rienstra, Sytze A. - 1997

The future sustainability of the urban transport system is largely determined by the technological composition of and measures introduced in the system. This composition is dependent on many background factors. This paper investigates this relationship by means of a panel analysis of experts'...

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Daily Exchange Rate Behaviour and Hedging of Currency Risk

Bos, Charles S.; Mahieu, Ronald J.; van Dijk, Herman K. - 1999

Exchange rates typically exhibit time-varying patterns in both means andvariances. The histograms of such series indicate heavy tails. In thispaper we construct models which enable a decision-maker to analyze theimplications of such time series patterns for currency risk management.Our approach...

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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?

Moers, Luc - 1999

Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turnbeing important for the...

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