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Employment Status, Income Equality, and Poverty in Egypt

Abd El Hamid Ali, Hoda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

importance of poverty problem. These results show that women in Egypt are less engaged in decent jobs because they are less …The present study examines trends in employment status in Egypt in an important era of democratic transition. It … participation, and to examine the impact of different labor force practices and income equality on poverty. Empirical findings …

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Interdependencies of Health, Education & Poverty in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey Using Demographic and Health Survey

Driouchi, Ahmed; Baijou, Ahmad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The interdependencies of health, education and poverty that are common knowledge to individuals are also present at the … research but based on the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) of Egypt, Morocco and Turkey. The results attained through …

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Income Distribution and Macroeconomics

Galor, Oded; Zeira, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988

This paper analyzes the role of income distribution in macroeconomic analysis. The study demonstrates that the long-run equilibrium depends on the initial distribution of income. In accordance with empirical evidence concerning the correlation between income distribution and output, an economy...

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Pareto Distributions and the Evolution of Top Incomes in the U.S.

Aoki, Shuhei; Nirei, Makoto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms and entrepreneur's portfolio choice. We analytically show that this model generates the Pareto distribution of top income earners and Zipf's law of firms at the steady state. The differential equation for the...

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The Profit Theory is False Since Adam Smith. What About the True Distribution Theory?

Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

All popular schools lack a consistent profit theory. Economists have no true conception of the most important phenomenon in their universe. This methodological defect persists since Adam Smith. Therefore, the theories of income and wealth distribution are wrong by logical implication. If the...

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Okun's and Barro's Misery Index as an Alternative Poverty Assessment Tool. Recent Estimations for European Countries

Lechman, Ewa - 2014

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Islam and Human Development

Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The paper aims to present the Islamic appraisal of established theories in academic literature of development economics, both in classical and neo-classical economics. The paper also explains the Islamic concept of human development and shows it to be more welfare maximizing to humans in their...

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Remittances, Poverty and Income Inequality: What relations in rural Morocco?

Bouoiyour, Jamal; Miftah, Amal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

For several decades the fight against poverty has become a major policy concern for national governments and … international institutions. In this paper, we examine the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality by using an original …

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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Generalised Lorenz Curves

Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This module illustrates how Generalised Lorenz (GL) Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options, in many of the cases where ordinary Lorenz curves fail to work After...

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Assessing the impacts of agricultural policy and structural reforms on income distribution and poverty in Brazil

Azzoni, Carlos Roberto; Menezes, Tatiane; Silveira, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

income distribution and poverty levels within those countries.The objective of this study is to produce an estimate of the … impacts of agricultural policy and structural reforms on income distribution and poverty in Brazil, considering not only the …

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