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Francois, Joseph Francis; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2008

We develop a generalized approach to the treatment of household inequality aspects of social welfare in general equilibrium models of trade. We follow a dual approach, highlighting how general equilibrium distributional aspects of social welfare related to import protection may be examined...

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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015

Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …

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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

will hamper remittance growth. We revisit the relationship between education and remitting behavior using microdata from … surveys of immigrants in eleven major destination countries. The data show a mixed pattern between education and the … likelihood of remitting, and a strong positive relationship between education and the amount remitted conditional on remitting …

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Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2003

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our model is that we take into account the impact of migration...

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Network Effects and the Dynamics of Migration and Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Mexico

Mckenzie, David; Rapoport, Hillel - 2004

International migration is costly and initially only the middle class of the wealth distribution may have both the means and incentives to migrate, increasing inequality in the sending community. However, the migration networks formed lower the costs for future migrants, which can in turn lower...

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Income Inequality and Growth: A Panel Study of Swedish Counties 1960-2000

Nahum, Ruth-Aïda - 2005

This paper explores the relationship between income inequality and growth using panel data on Swedish counties from 1960-2000. Compared to standard methods of estimating this relationship yearly regional level data are used, and inequality is allowed to be endogenous. We find a significant...

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Childhood Health and Labor Market Outcomes in the Case of Type 1 Diabetes

Persson, Sofie; Dahlquist, Gisela; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; … - 2014

health shock. Using data from the Swedish Childhood Diabetes Register and national registers on education, employment, and …

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Effect of Type 1 Diabetes on School Performance in a Dynamic World: New Analysis Exploring Swedish Register Data

Persson, Emma; Persson, Sofie; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Steen … - 2016

This paper investigates if the effect of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) on school performance has changed over time using national Swedish population register data. The issue is of interest because management and treatment of the disease have improved over the last decades and, furthermore,...

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The Long Term Impact of French Settlement on Education in Algeria

Merrouche, Ouarda - 2007

This paper provides evidence on the long run relationship between European settlers presence and education levels in … massive funds allocated to the <p> education sector post-war; (2) the role of the market via migration; (3) social interaction … effects whereby natives progressively adopted education and fertility norms of the settlers. …

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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - 2012

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …

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