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Earnings Inequality and the Informal Economy: Evidence from Serbia
Krstić, Gorana; Sanfey, Peter - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2008
We analyse the extent and evolution of informality and inequality in the Serbian labour market between 2002 and 2007 …-oriented reforms. Second, the level of inequality in earnings seems to have remained more or less constant over the period, in contrast … important role in explaining earnings inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010768981
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2007
earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate timeinconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260926
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763901
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure U.S. Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View From Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, Stephen - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2007
earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058773
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate timeinconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068767
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults*
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Burkhauser, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2007
earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413422
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Wage Adjustment, Competitiveness and Unemployment – East Germany after Unification
Smolny, Werner - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 229 (2009) 2-3, pp. 130-145
Nearly 20 years after unification large differences of the labor market situation in East and West Germany persist. Wages are still considerably lower, the unemployment rate is about twice of the West German level, and the competitiveness of the East German economy seems to be low. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559119
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The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): the Case of the Chinese Provinces during the Economic Transition
Biggeri, Mario - Centro interuniversitario di Economia Applicata alle … - 2012
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered a relevant factor of Chinese economic growth particularly for the coastal region. The aim of this paper is to understand what determined the location of FDI in China during the economic transition from the early 1980’s up to the Asian crisis. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895713
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Brief Introduction of Macroeconomic Structure of Yemen (1990-2005)
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011
In countries where tools of economic control are immature and disabled due to totalitarian systems, macroeconomic analyses for aggregate quantities and relationships, such as total consumption, investment, and government expenditures represents a difficult task. The practice of aggregation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125904
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No Razor's Edge : Reexamining Alwyn Young's Evidence for Increasing Inter-Provincial Trade Barriers in China
Holz, Carsten A. - 2006
Alwyn Young (2000) provided evidence for distortions begetting distortions in a partially reformed economy by examining barriers to inter-provincial trade in China. His findings of increasing barriers to inter-provincial trade are based on five arguments. This paper critically examines each of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734209