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Taxation and Income Distribution Dynamics in a Neoclassical Growth Model
Garcìa-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - HAL - 2008
We examine how changes in tax policies affect the dynamics of the distributions of wealth and income in a Ramsey model in which agents differ in their initial capital endowment. The endogeneity of the labor supply plays a crucial role in determining inequality, as tax changes that affect hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794135
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Asymptotic and bootstrap inference for inequality and poverty measures
Davidson, Russell; Flachaire, Emmanuel - HAL - 2007
inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750903
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Trade-Induced Changes in Economic Inequality: Assessment Issues and Policy Implications for Developing Countries
Chabe-Ferret, Sylvain; Gourdon, Julien; Marouani, … - HAL - 2011
The starting point of this paper is given by country situations where trade liberalization is expected to be poverty … and inequality alleviating in the long run while inducing a short run increase in poverty or in inequality. The question … trade policies within a global policy framework so as to enhance growth and reduce poverty and inequality. The method …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805102
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Openness, Inequality, and Poverty: Endowments Matter
Gourdon, Julien; Maystre, Nicolas; De, Jaime Melo - HAL - 2011
Using tariffs as a measure of openness, this paper finds consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization, measured by changes in tariff revenues, is associated with increases in inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805113
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Openness and Inequality in Developing Countries: a New Look at the Evidence
Gourdon, Julien - HAL - 2011
Integration to world markets is expected to help developing countries to access prosperity. At the same time, increasing opportunities to trade are likely to affect income distribution and whether or not increasing openness to trade is accompanied by a reduction or an increase inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805959
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Return Migration and the Survival of Entrepreneurial Activities in Egypt
Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012
The literature shows that temporary international migrants have a high propensity to opt for an entrepreneurial activity upon return, but the prospects of survival of these activities have not been explored. We address this research question using longitudinal Egyptian data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821266
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Social Participation of Rural Youth in Development in Two Villages in Kena Governorate in Egypt.
Nour, Saker El - HAL - 2008
governorate in Egypt, Sample social survey approach was used in this study population was sampled from among rural youth of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898442
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Computer-based business simulations as revealers of cultural and learning differences. The case of Business Administration and Business Informatics Students in Egypt.
Antheaume, Nicolas; Catalo, Marie; Ismail, Howayda - HAL - 2012
In this article we demonstrate, through the case of Egypt, how the emphasis on one specific learning mode from primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899423
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The impact of training, of application and of time on negotiator styles.
Soliman, Chérine; Stimec, Arnaud; Antheaume, Nicolas - HAL - 2012
, over a period of 12 months. This experiment, which took place in Egypt, enabled us to propose a dynamic typology of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899757
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Heterogeneity in the Egyptian informal labour market: choice or obligation?
Harati, Rawaa - HAL - 2013
This paper provides historical and empirical arguments that can explain the development of the Egyptian informal sector. After recalling the various approaches proposed in the literatures, it identifies the configuration that overrides the Egyptian labor market by allowing for the heterogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026091