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Global Poverty Goals and Prices: How Purchasing Power Parity Matters

Jolliffe, Dean; Prydz, Espen Beer - 2015

With the recent release of the 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) data from the International Comparison Program (ICP), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The previous round of PPP data from 2005 led to a large...

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A Global Count of the Extreme Poor in 2012: Data Issues, Methodology and Initial Results

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Chen, Shaohua; Dabalen, Andrew; … - 2015

The 2014 release of a new set of purchasing power parity conversion factors (PPPs) for 2011 has prompted a revision of the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin...

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Purchasing Power Parity for Developing and Developed Countries: What Can We Learn from Non-Stationary Panel Data Models?

Drine, Imed; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The aim of this paper is to apply recently developed panel cointegration techniques proposed by Pedroni (1999, 2004) and generalized by Banerjee and Carrion-i-Silvestre (2006) to examine the robustness of the PPP concept for a sample of 80 developed and developing countries. We find that strong...

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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? : The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

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Trends in economic research: an international perspective

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females

Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009

We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...

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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …

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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012

sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

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The effects of the recent economic crisis on social protection and labour market arrangements across socio-economic groups

Basso, Gaetano; Dolls, Matthias; Eichhorst, Werner; … - 2011

can explain cross-country variation in labour market developments, they also lead to an unequal distribution of economic … extent the financial and economic crisis that hit the global economy in 2008-2009 impacted these labour market developments …

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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe

Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012

mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …

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