compared with various income and geographical comparator groups of countries? Where are the largest deviations-positive and …

Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics: country where they live and income class …'s global income position (percentile in world income distribution) is explained by only these two pieces of information. Mean … country income (circumstance) explains 60 percent, and income class (both circumstance and effort) 30 percent of global income …

that free trade agreements between low-income countries tend to lead to divergence in member country incomes, while … agreements between high-income countries tend to lead to convergence. Changes introduced by comparative advantage may be …"north-south"free trade agreements, because"north-south"agreements increase their prospects for convergence with high-income members of the …

parliamentary), per capita income levels, and the level of democracy. The paper finds that oversight potential is greatly affected … by the form of government, per capita income levels, and levels of democracy. Countries with parliamentary forms of … government, higher income levels, and which are more democratic have a greater number of oversight tools and greater oversight …

Using the 1992 Bulgarian household budget survey, the authors analyze the distribution of income and of the income tax … burden by income and expenditure class and by rural-urban sector. They find: 1) Low income inequality (although that is … changing rapidly). 2) A progressive income tax system. The poor (the lowest two-income decile) pay only 1.4 percent of their …

Organization (WIPO). Questions of interest include the distribution of trademarks between countries of different income levels, the … share of trademark registrations accounted for by foreign residents and its variation across different income groups, the …

through which voters in more unequal countries re-distribute a greater proportion of income and thus (it is argued), by … the distribution of (pre-tax and transfer) factor income across households, and hence on the exact amount of gain by the … income redistribute more in favor of the poor - even when the analysis controls for the older people's share in total …

Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …