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integrates the debate theories of growth, income distribution, inequality and differences between the extremes income and income …
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After Hamilton (2001) and Costa (2001) many empirical and analytical studies (Gong and Meng (2007), Barrett and Brzozowski (2008), …) have manipulated and extended Engel's law to estimate CPI bias and regional price differences. However, there is not yet any study on Iran in which the biases...
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integrates the debate theories of growth, income distribution, inequality and differences between the extremes income and income …
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in earnings mobility in Canada. Mobility analysis can be seen as a complement to the analysis of income distribution. For … earnings distribution into lower, middle and upper regions or earnings intervals based on median earnings levels for the … distribution as a whole, and calculate the proportion of workers in each group for all years over the 1982–96 period. They also …
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virtue of providing a richer and more flexible parameterization of the inefficiency distribution in the stochastic frontier …
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Kaldor's neo-Pasinetti theorem is examined in an economy where the rate of profit adjusts to higher effective demand through increases in the rate of capacity utilization rather than through increases in the margin of profit. A Tobinian investment function, where investment responds to the...
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This article uses the Case-Shiller technique for constructing housing price indices on a Norwegian data set of transactions for the period 1991-2002 consisting of 10 376 pairs of repeated sales. Using a weighted least squares scheme in order to control for heteroskedasticity, we construct a...
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We analyze the properties of progressive water tariffs that are often applied in the sector in the form of discretely increasing block tariffs (IBT). We are particularly interested in water tarification in a poverty context where a subsistence level of water has to be allocated to each...
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Many developing countries around the world apply progressive water tariffs, often structured in the form of discretely increasing block tariffs (IBTs). These tariffs have been criticized in the welfare economic literature due to their perceived inefficiency: many of the prices charged under IBTs...
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Many developing countries around the world apply progressive water tariffs, often structured in the form of discretely increasing block tariffs (IBTs). These tariffs have been criticized in the welfare economic literature due to their perceived inefficiency: many of the prices charged under IBTs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442381