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. Furthermore, international trade is not associated with increases in top incomes on average, but is so in Anglo-Saxon countries …
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This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … conditions and policies that help spread the gains from trade more evenly throughout the population. We exploit a large global … employment prospects in response to trade shocks. Finally, we find that firms experiencing greater import competition start with …
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This paper studies the welfare implications of trade opening in a world in which trade raises aggregate income but also … provide tools to characterize and quantify the effects of trade opening on the distribution of disposable income (after … redistribution). We propose two adjustments to standard measures of the welfare gains from trade: a 'welfarist' correction inspired …
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This paper studies the welfare implications of trade opening in a world in which trade raises aggregate income but also … provide tools to characterize and quantify the effects of trade opening on the distribution of disposable income (after … redistribution). We propose two adjustments to standard measures of the welfare gains from trade: a ‘welfarist' correction inspired …
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We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...
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We review the literature on the links between inequality, growth and welfare. Three questions are addressed: 1) What is the impact of growth and development on inequality? 2) What is the impact of inequality on growth, development and welfare? 3) What is the impact of proequality public policies...
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Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...
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