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Trade policy and the household distribution of income
Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2004
tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335217
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Income inequality and the quality of imports
Ciani, Andrea - 2017
This paper investigates how income inequality affects the quality of imported products. In a heterogeneous-firms trade … imported goods. To test this prediction, I employ detailed firm-level trade data for the period 2001- 2006. I empirically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623219
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Higher minimum quality standards and redistributive effects on consumer welfare
Kotschedoff, Marco; Pachali, Max J. - In: Essays in empirical industrial organization: …, (pp. 7-68). 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056005
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Higher Minimum Quality Standards and Redistributive Effects on Consumer Welfare
Kotschedoff, Marco J.W. - 2020
minimum quality standards for eggs are raised, the price of higher quality eggs falls. As a result, consumer welfare is … eggs that provide higher animal welfare. This provides evidence that higher minimum quality standards have a regressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851862
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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income
Francois, J.; Rojas-Romagosa, H. - 2004
tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325564
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We, the Rich : Inequality, Identity and Cooperation in Complex Societies
Martinangeli, Andrea FM - 2019
Inequality not only generates status differentials between rich and poor individuals, it also generates status differentials between groups of different composition and income level. We organise the social structure within which groups are embedded to directly manipulate the processes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859029
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Chapter 17 The Economics of Migrants' Remittances
Rapoport, Hillel; Docquier, Frédéric - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1135-1198). 2006
' behavior. At the macro level we first briefly review the standard (Keynesian) and the trade-theoretic literature on the short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023661
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Seeking Desperately : Estimating the Distribution of Consumers Under Increasing Block Rates
Castro Rodríguez, Fidel; Delicado, Pedro; da Rocha, … - 1998
This paper shows that the distribution of observed consumption is not a good proxy for the distribution of heterogeneous consumers when the current tariff is an increasing block tariff. We use a two-step method to recover the "true" distribution of consumers. First, we estimate the demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221833
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Equity and International Trade
Francois, Joseph Francis; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2008
equilibrium models of trade. We follow a dual approach, highlighting how general equilibrium distributional aspects of social … inequality results in trade theory that are focused strictly on functional rather than household inequality. As an application of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294852
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Equity and international trade
Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2008 - Print date: September 6, 2008
equilibrium models of trade. We follow a dual approach, highlighting how general equilibrium distributional aspects of social … inequality results in trade theory that are focused strictly on functional rather than household inequality. As an application of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009239049