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Global Earnings Inequality, 1970–2015
Hammar, Olle - 2017
, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956018
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Happiness and Economic Growth : The Evidence
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are positively associated. Evidence for this is found in time series data for developed countries, transition countries, and less developed countries, whether analyzed separately or pooled....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087399
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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World : What Do We Really Know?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
estimation methods are discussed and critically evaluated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317424
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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States Around the World
Bartels, Charlotte - 2020
, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823316
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza - 2013
In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092587
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On the Robustness of Brain Gain Estimates
Beine, Michel - 2009
Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a recent paper (Beine, Docquier and Rapoport, Economic Journal, 2008) we used the Docquier and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158048
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Disease Environment and Civil Conflicts
Cervellati, Matteo - 2011
robust to different specifications, data sets and estimation methods, and suggest that the persistent exposure to a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127319
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Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs : Theory and Empirical Evidence
Dubois, Pierre; Jullien, Bruno; Magnac, Thierry - 2021
We develop and estimate a model of dynamic interactions in which commitment is limited and contracts are incomplete to explain the patterns of income and consumption growth in village economies of less developed countries. Households can insure each other through both formal contracts and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316985
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The Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty in High-Income Countries
Parolin, Zachary; Schmitt, Rafael; Esping-Andersen, Gøsta - 2023
framework to decompose intergenerational poverty into family background effects, mediation effects, tax/transfer insurance …, the U.S. has comparatively weak tax/transfer insurance effects and a more severe residual poverty penalty. Should the U ….S. adopt the tax/transfer insurance effects of peer countries, its intergenerational poverty persistence could decline by more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348286
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2011
countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117402