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Has Globalization Eroded Labor’s Share? Some Cross-Country Evidence

Harrison, Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

In recent years, economists and other social scientists have devoted extensive research efforts to understanding the widening wage gap between high-skill and low-skill workers. This paper focuses on a slightly different question: how has globalization affected the relative share of income going...

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A Shrinking Slice of the Pie: The Labour Income Share in Australia

Cowgill, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The ‘wages breakout’ has been a recurring theme in the Australian public policy debate in recent years. Political conservatives, media commentators and some business groups have warned that Australian wages growth is unsustainable, or threatens to become unsustainable. This paper critically...

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Examining Theories of Growth & Development & Policy Response Based on Them from Islamic Perspective

Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Poverty and inequality around the world has been rising over the last three decades and the attainment of the …

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(Tax evasion) power to the people: does "early democratization" increase the size of the informal sector?

Adam, Antonis; Kammas, Pantelis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper examines the political economy forces that lead to the creation of the informal sector in an economy. Our analysis treats unofficial economy as an endogenous outcome that may be produced by the conflict for redistribution between different groups of agents. The crucial factor in our...

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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Generalised Lorenz Curves

Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This module illustrates how Generalised Lorenz (GL) Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options, in many of the cases where ordinary Lorenz curves fail to work After...

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An overview of India’s Urbanization, Urban Economic Growth and Urban Equity

Tripathi, Sabyasachi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

growth, and urban equity measured by urban poverty and inequality in India. In addition, it reviews the different urban … of urbanization is associated with higher economic growth, lower level of poverty and higher extent of inequality in … higher share of national GDP by reducing urban poverty and inequality. …

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Rural transformation since 1970s in Dokur Village of Andhra Pradesh, India

Reddy, A Amarender - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

also examined. The per capita income of households has increased rapidly in the recent years. However, income inequality …

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Elements of novelty, known mechanisms, and the fundamental causes of the recent crisis

Russo, Alberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

wide-ranging increase of inequality and instability, thus implying a crescendo of crises until the last one (and maybe …

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Analysis of subjective wellbeing in low-income transitional countries: evidence from comparative national surveys in Armenia,Azerbaijan and Georgia

Nazim, Habibov; Elvin, Afandi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Drawing on the comparative household surveys, this article examines subjective wellbeing in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, three low-income transitional countries located on the Caucasus. We found that economic factors explain a considerable part of the variation in subjective wellbeing. The...

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An Assessment of the Inequality in Income and Land Holdings among Rural Rice Farmers of District Swat

Khattak, Naeem Ur Rehman Khattak; Hussain, Anwar Hussain - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

inequality in farmers’ income and land holdings. The results obtained from Lorenz square box and Gini-coefficient indicated … higher degree of inequality existing among farmers’ income and size of land holdings. Based on the findings of the study …

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