Similar Search Results

Environmental externalities and immiserizing structural changes in an economy with heterogeneous agents

Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - In: Ecological Economics 81 (2012) C, pp. 80-91

The way in which natural and physical capital are accumulated, distributed and harnessed underpins the functioning and sustainability of the productive system of each society as well as its social stratification. Significant changes in the interactions between natural and physical capital...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010594464

Industrialization and environmental externalities in a Solow-type model

Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Sordi, Serena; Ticci, Elisa - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 47 (2014) C, pp. 211-224

In this paper we examine the role played by environmental externalities in shaping the dynamics of an economy with two sectors (a farming sector and an industrial one), free inter-sectoral labor mobility and heterogeneous agents (workers/farmers and industrial entrepreneurs). We find that, in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051979

Chapter 13 Income distribution and development

Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 791-841). 2000

This paper is a review of the post-war literature on income distribution and development. It argues that the literature has cycled from one consensus to another, responding to emerging policy issues and new analysis. On the basis of the review, the paper identifies five areas that will command...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024196

Income distribution, bargaining power, and structural change in developed economies

Medeiros, Carlos A. de; Trebat, Nicholas Miller - In: Journal of economic issues 56 (2022) 2, pp. 431-438

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013539111

Chapter 73 Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth

Gollin, Douglas - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3825-3866). 2010

In most poor countries, large majorities of the population live in rural areas and earn their livelihoods primarily from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024046

Structural development accounting

Gancia, Gino Alessandro; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, … - 2011

We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739171

Of cities and slums

Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander; … - 2016

The emergence of slums is a common feature in a country's path towards urbanization, structural transformation and development. Based on salient micro and macro evidence of Brazilian labor, housing and education markets, we construct a simple model to examine the conditions for slums to emerge....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585843

Informal Sector in Economic Development : An Analytical Foundation

Bhattacharya, Prabir C. - 2024

1. A Survey of the Theoretical Literature on Rural-Urban Migration -- 2. A Model of a Less Developed Country (LDC): The Static Analysis -- 3. A Model of a Less Developed Country: The Dynamic Analysis -- 4. Further Implications -- 5. A Model of Optimal Development with an Informal Sector -- 6. A...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014634529

Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023678

The World Economy : Volume 1: A Millennial Perspective and Volume 2: Historical Statistics

Maddison, Angus - 2006

The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, first published in 2001 and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, published in 2003. This new edition contains Statlinks, a service providing access to the underlying data in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012440519