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The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity

Abu-Ghaida, Dina; Klasen, Stephan - 2004

At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the … achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the …

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The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices

Lemos, Sara - 2004

It is well established in the international literature that minimum wage increases compress the wages distribution. Firms respond to these higher labour costs by reducing employment, reducing profits, or raising prices. While there are hundreds of studies on the employment effect of the minimum...

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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants

Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004

This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...

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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...

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Capital Accumulation and Growth : A New Look at the Empirical Evidence

Schiantarelli, Fabio; Leblebicioglu, Asli; Bond, Steve - 2004

We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker, not only temporarily, but also in the steady state. These results are found using pooled annual data for a large panel of countries, using pooled data for non-overlapping...

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Outlier Aversion in Evaluating Performance : Evidence from Figure Skating

Lee, Jungmin - 2004

The quality of subjective performance evaluation is dependent on the incentive structures faced by evaluators, in particular on how they are monitored and themselves evaluated. Figure skating competitions provide a unique opportunity to study subjective evaluation. This paper develops and tests...

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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...

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The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

results from different case studies are presented. These results are further contrasted to those obtained based on the World … the concepts, measurement and decomposition of inequality, the world distribution of income and inequality measured at … those based on the World Income Inequality Database. Research on the world income inequality supports increased awareness of …

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Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

. We investigate the economic disparity between regions of the world and among countries within each continent or …

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The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalisation and show how globalisation has developed over time for different...

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