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In this paper we explore the links between international migration and income inequality. After presenting a simple model which considers the role of income distribution in individual decisions to migrate, we estimate a set of models on the determinants of yearly bilateral migration from a very...
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leads to higher average prices. We test the theory using detailed data for Brazilian exporters and find that the destination …
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personellen Einkommensverteilung auf nationale Leistungsbilanzsalden zu analysieren. Im Modell hat jedes Land einen Haushalts- und … Einkommensverteilung und dem institutionellen Umfeld erklärt werden kann. Hingegen wird die verhältnismäßige schwache Binnennachfrage in … Deutschland und China seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre maßgeblich durch Verschiebungen in der funktionalen Einkommensverteilung zu …
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In this paper, the relation between the equality of income distribution and sustainable development is discussed. This issue is elaborated using theories of justice of John Stuart Mill, John Roemer, John Rawls and Amartya Sen.
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This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.
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The openness to international trade and capital movements of industrialized countries has increased substantially during the recent decades. At the same time, most of these countries experienced a rise in income dispersion. Against this background, the paper analyzes empirically whether the...
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A key aspect defining the contemporary income distribution is the (increasing) share the top holds compared to the rest. This paper shows that income concentration increases towards the very top of the distribution, while the shares the middle- and upper-middle-income groups hold, remain stable...
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, saving, and debt for the 1920s by applying a non-standard theory of consumption, the relative income hypothesis, to the …-Standard Theorie des Haushaltskonsums, die Relative Einkommenshypothese, zurück. Es wird argumentiert, dass steigende …
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