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Reopening the Convergence Debate: A New Look at Cross-Country GrowthEmpirics
Caselli, Francesco; Esquivel, Gerardo; Lefort, Fernando - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1996
There are two sources of inconsistency in existing cross-country empiricalwork on growth: correlated individual effects and endogenous explanatoryvariables. We estimate a variety of cross- country growth regressions usinga generalized method of moments estimator that eliminates both problems.In...
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Distribution Dynamics: Stratification, Polarisation and Convergence Among OECD Economies, 1870-1992
Epstein, Philip; Howlett, Peter; Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
Since the 1980s the debate about economic convergence hasdominated empirical work about the dynamics of growth. Economichistorians have been attracted, in particular, by stories of clubconvergence. However, the analytical foundations of most of the work inthis area have rested on linear, or more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870752
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The Spanish Empire and Its Legacy: Fiscal Re-distribution and PoliticalConflict in Colonial and Post-Colonial Spanish AmericaThe Spanish Empire and Its Legacy: Fiscal Re-distributi...
Grafe, Regina; Irigoin, Maria Alejandra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
As part of an endeavour to explain the divergence in incomes per capita between North and South America new institutional economics (NIE) and economic history have attempted in recent years to realize the potential effort for illumination derivable from comparisons of the heritage of their...
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Social Exclusion, Social Isolation and the Distributionof Income
Barry, Brian M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
It is worth distinguishing social exclusion from social isolation, definingsocial isolation as the phenomenon of non-participation (of anindividual or group) in a society’s mainstream institutions, whilereserving ‘social exclusion’ for the subset of cases in which socialisolation occurs...
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Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs: Evidence from U.S. Law Firms
Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2009
Earnings inequality has increased substantially since the 1970s. Using evidence changes from con…dential Census data on U.S. law offices on lawyers'organization and earnings, we study the extent to which the mechanism suggested by Lucas (1978) and Rosen (1982), a scale of operations effect...
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A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution
Caselli, Francesco; Ventura, Jaume - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
This paper introduces various sources of consumer heterogeneity in one-sector representative consumer (RC) growth models and develops tools to study the evolution of the distribution of consumptions, assets and incomes.[...]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305094
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Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presenceof Income Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
labor income taxation. Additional literature is motivated bythe possibility that distributive concerns should amend the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305124
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Comparing incomes when needs differ: Equivalisation forthe extra costs of disability in the UK
Zaidi, Asghar; Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
theory is that a household’s standard of livingis a function of income and needs. The extra costs of disability can be … derivedby comparing the standard of living of households with and without disabledmembers at a given income, having controlled … results, we compare and contrastthree different income distributions which differ in their adjustment for the extracosts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354064
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GENDER BIASED REDISTRIBUTION AND INTRAHOUSEHOLDDISTRIBUTION
Dasgupta, Indraneel - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2000
This paper examines the implications of income redistribution from men to women for the welfareof married women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869063
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An Economic Life in Vain − Path Dependence and East Germany’s Pre- and Post-Unification Economic Stagnation
Blum, Ulrich - 2011
West German productivity and income variables. The strong initial takeoff until the mid-end 1990s ended at a level of 70 … Wirtschaft verharrt seitdem auf einem Niveau, das 70% bis 80% der westdeutschen Referenzgrößen entspricht. In diesem Beitrag … werden zwei voneinander unabhängige Hypothesen überprüft: (i), dass bereits die kommunistische Wirtschaft Ostdeutschlands vor …
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