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Redefining the Economical Power of Nations

Kiss, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper is (over the formulas) self explaining . The measurement of economies no longer by GDP alone, but by an Index that includes other important factors as well, a So-cial factors relativized GDP. This index cuts out the part of the GDP that is long term fro-zen up by social transfers...

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Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira Model

Jun, Bogang; Hwang, Won-Sik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Against the background of inconclusive evidence about the inequality–growth relation, this paper suggests that the level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections and that this increasing inequality negatively affects economic growth. We expand the...

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Educação para todos –“free to those who can afford it”: human capital and inequality persistence in 21st c Brazil

Kendrick, Neil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As one of the world’s most unequal societies, Brazil is often referred to as a land of contrasts: the causes of its …

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Time Preference and the Distributions of Wealth and Income

Suen, Richard M. H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper presents a dynamic competitive equilibrium model in which heterogeneity in time preferences alone can generate the observed patterns of wealth and income inequality in the United States. This model generalizes the standard deterministic neoclassical growth model by introducing (i) a...

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Child Labour and Inequality

Fioroni, Tamara; D'Alessandro, Simone - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper focuses on the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital in an economy characterized by two types of workers, low- and high-skilled. This heterogeneity allows an endogenous analysis of inequality generated by child labour. More specifically, according to empirical...

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The joint effect of human capital and income inequalities on HIV/AIDS prevalence: An exploratory investigation

Annim, Samuel Kobina; Dasmani, Isaac - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The evidence of higher income inequality leading to increased HIV prevalence through channels of coercion and migration has emerged. This coupled with previously established macroeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS connotes reverse causality that is likely to develop a cyclical effect. The plausible...

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The Lisbon process, re-visited. A reality check of the European social model.

Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This article portrays a bleak picture of European realities. Analyzing world social, gender, ecological and economic … the “blue”, market paradigm as the best and most viable way of world systems governance concerning economic growth, re … of world economic openness” but rather, on the contrary, by the enormous amount of passive globalization that Europe …

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Growth is (really) good for the (really) rich

Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Chavez, Emmanuel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

data from the World Top Incomes database, which collects top income data from several countries using tax returns as the …

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Consumption and Income Inequality During the Transition to a Market Economy: Poland, 1985–1992

Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially following the economic transition in 1989–90. Using microdata from the 1985–92 Household Budget Surveys, we find that overall income inequality increased in 1989 but...

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Measuring concentration in economic sectors by h-index and g-index

Bartolucci, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We show that the h-index and the g-index, which are commonly used to mea- sure the research productivity of a scientist, may be seen as concentration indices. For these indices we also propose transformations that make them always ranging between two known limits, which correspond to the...

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