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This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …
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We study the relationship between per-capita income and income inequality with a heterogeneous panel co …-51 years and consider measures for both pre-tax and post-tax income inequality; second, we take into account country …-tax income inequality,but no such relationship for post-tax income inequality. Moreover, we find estimates on the country level …
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The labor market effects of remittances have long been examined in the empirical literature. To date, the results have been mixed: some authors observe a negative association between remittances and unemployment while others report that remittances increase unemployment. This paper empirically...
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Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its … relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning …
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Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its … relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning …
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Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its … relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning …
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We explore Okun's coefficient in several Latin American countries for the period from 1995-2017 and compare the results obtained using ordinary least squares (OLS) and generalised maximum entropy (GME) estimators. There are several advantages in considering the GME estimator over traditional...
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This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...
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