, within 70 countries at various levels of development, there is a positive relationship between income per capita and the … fully accounted for by (a) relatively higher ICT prices in low-income countries and (b) industrial composition …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration by comparing the …

contributed to raise purchase prices and the cash income of vanilla farmers. But the effect on farmers' consumption remains small …

This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and … three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in … various manufacturing sectors. Second, the estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are used to analyze the …

Few studies have tried to measure how households in a developing country save from each of the different income sources … Pakistan save from each of the seven separate sources of income. The author finds that households save from different sources … of income at significantly different marginal rates. For example, the marginal propensity to save from external …

-called superstar cities in which housing is so inelastically supplied that it becomes unaffordable, as higher-income families outbid … implications for growth and income distribution. There is not a great deal of data available to examine trends in Accra, so our … equations allows us to infer Accra's housing supply elasticity. Taken together, our approaches suggest that lower-income …

s. This contributed to the well-known increase in the top 1 percent's share of total income, exacerbating rising … the asymmetries in the association, tests for robustness to alternative income definitions, and discusses the potential …

other factors, including age, gender, family educational background, distance to school, and income. Literacy and age are …