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Iranian Crude Oil Marketing & Sale After The Islamic Republic

Vakhshouri, Sara - 2011

The marketing and sales polices of Iranian crude oil have been revised and changed after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Production policy that drastically cut back production in order to maintain oil reserves for future generations. In terms of marketing Iranian crude oil, the new revolutionary...

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Rising Wage Inequality : The Role of Composition and Prices

Autor, David H.; Katz, Lawrence F.; Kearney, Melissa S. - 2005

During the early 1980s, earnings inequality in the U.S. labor market rose relatively uniformly throughout the wage distribution. But this uniformity gave way to a significant divergence starting in 1987, with upper-tail (90/50) inequality rising steadily and lower tail (50/10) inequality either...

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Educational Impacts and Rising Inequality in the Us

Millimet, Daniel L.; Slottje, Daniel J.; Yitzhaki, Shlomo; … - 2003

This study integrates two bodies of work to explore how changes in human capital have impacted the distribution of household permanent income. Introducing a human capital accumulation model, a framework is established - utilizing the special properties of the Gini coefficient - which maps...

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Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices

Autor, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; Kearney, Melissa S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

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A DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF TREATMENT EFFECTS IN RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS

Voia, Marcel - In: Economics Bulletin 3 (2008) 36, pp. 1-9

This paper considers statistical tests that can be used to identify if a treatment is effective for a specific outcome variable over the entire distribution of a treated group when it is compared with a control group's distribution. Using only the average treatment effect to evaluate specific...

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The Interaction between Parents and Children as a Relevant Dimension of Child Well Being. The Case of Italy

Addabbo, Tindara; Facchinetti, Gisella; Maccagnan, Anna; … - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2008

This paper aims at measuring the functionings of social interaction, a relevant dimension in the description and conceptualisation of child well being by using the capability approach. In this paper we deal with a special dimension of this capability that involves the capability of interaction...

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Estimating income mobility using census data: a probabilistic approach

Figueiredo, Erik A.; Ziegelmann, Flávio - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 1, pp. 8-8

This paper aims to measure the degree of income mobility in Brazil in the period from 1987 to 2005. To achieve that, it … transition probability matrix calculations and its mobility index indicate that Brazil presents low intergenerational income …

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The centre cannot hold: Patterns of polarization in Nigeria

Clementi, Fabio; Dabalen, Andrew L.; Molini, Vasco; … - 2014

Our hypothesis is that Nigeria is going through a process of economic polarization. An analysis of this type is new for … techniques. To explore polarization, our study uses instead the relative distribution methodology. Findings confirm the sharp … increase of polarization. Compared to 2003 consumption distribution is more concentrated in upper and lower defiles, while the …

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The centre cannot hold: Patterns of polarization in Nigeria

Clementi, Fabio; Dabalen, Andrew L.; Molini, Vasco; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Our hypothesis is that Nigeria is going through a process of economic polarization. An analysis of this type is new for …

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The changing nature of work and inequality in Brazil (2003-19) : a descriptive analysis

Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; Portella, Alysson; Riva, Flavio; … - 2021

intensity of routine tasks embodied in them in explaining changes in employment and earnings in Brazil, in particular their … relation with earnings and polarization, and inequality. We show some evidence of polarization in earnings but not with respect …

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