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Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ties in helping workers to migrate to the city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows...

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Life During Structural Transformation

Temple, Jonathan; Ying, Huikang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

workers from agriculture is associated with rising wage inequality, rather than a Kuznets curve. The increase in sectoral wage … inequality is pronounced for agriculture. At the same time, structural transformation is associated with major reductions in …

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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income

Francois, Joseph; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine cross …-country variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

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Breaking out of poverty traps: Internal migration and interregional convergence in Russia

Guriev, Sergei; Vakulenko, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study barriers to labor mobility using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in Russia for 1995-2010. We find that barriers that hindered internal migration in 1990s have been generally eliminated by the end of 2000s. In 1990s many poor Russian regions were in poverty traps:...

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Determinants of Interregional Mobility in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data

Andrienko, Yuri; Guriev, Sergei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

The Paper studies determinants of internal migration in Russia. Using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in 1992-99, we estimate the effect of economic, political and social factors. Although overall migration is rather low, it turns out that its intensity does depend on...

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Empirics for Growth and Distribution: Stratification, Polarization, and Convergence Clubs

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an ‘emerging twin peaks’ in the cross-sectional...

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Top Incomes in Indonesia, 1920-2004

Leigh, Andrew; Eng, Pierre van der - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

Using taxation and household survey data, this paper estimates top income shares for Indonesia during 1920-2004. Our results suggest that top income shares grew during the 1920s and 1930s, but fell in the post-war era. In more recent decades, we observe a sharp rise in top income shares during...

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Demographic Dividends Revisited

Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

inequality impact of demographic transitions? …

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Innovation and Growth with Rich and Poor Consumers

Brunner, Johann K; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the level of innovative activity in a model where innovations …

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