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Komarov, Evgenij - 2021 - This version: November 18, 2021

So-called "uphill capital flows", i.e. flows of physical capital from relatively poor to rich countries, are a new phenomenon with yet unclear impact. We develop a unified framework incorporating economic institutions, human capital and physical capital to study the interaction of international...

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Empirics for Growth and Distribution : Stratification, Polarization, and Convergence Clubs

Quah, Danny - 1997

This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an "emerging twin peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution,...

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Political Structure, Economic Growth and the Distribution of Income

Mushin, Jerry - 2010

This article describes a model that shows the economic effects of political structure. Four structures are examined: dictatorship, individual enterprise, individual enterprise with tax redistribution, and anarchism. The dependent variables are total output and its distribution

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Transformación industrial, Autonomía tecnológica y Crecimiento Económico: Colombia 1925-2005

Ortiz, Carlos Humberto; Uribe, José Ignacio; Vivas, Harvy - DEPARTAMENTO NACIONAL DE PLANEACIÓN - 2009

Las sendas entrelazadas de la transformación industrial y la autonomía tecnológica han incidido en el crecimiento económico de Colombia. La leve aceleración económica del período 1925-1979 se relaciona con la industrialización nacional. Y la desaceleración económica a partir de 1980,...

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Trade and Income -- Exploiting Time Series in Geography

Feyrer, James - 2009

variable problem by generating time varying geographic instruments. The quantity of world trade carried by air has been …

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Redistribution, selection, and trade

Kohl, Miriam - 2017

This paper examines the distributional effects of international trade in a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and a welfare state redistributing income. The redistribution scheme is financed by a progressive income tax and gives the same absolute transfer to all individuals....

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Government Procurement, International Specialization, and Income Inequality

Trionfetti, Federico - 1997

of liberalization of government procurement such that world welfare is higher than if government procurement were fully …

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Another empirical look at the Kuznets curve

Bhandari, Rabindra; Pradhan, Gyan; Upadhyay, Mukti P. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 7-19

This paper examines the functional relationships between income inequality, economic factors, institutions, and Kuznets' inverted-U hypothesis. A model that incorporates interactive as well as direct effects of several factors to capture their combined effect on inequality is developed. The...

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The great divergence : a network approach

Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the …

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Inequality of opportunity and economic growth : a cross-country analysis

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lakner, Christoph; Ana Lugo, … - 2014

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to economic progress. We construct two new metadata...

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