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Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper … analyze the role of wealth, in addition to income, as one dimension of multidimensional well-being. In addition we analyze the … roles of health and education. We provide empirical evidence for Germany. …
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health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …
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This paper contributes towards the growing debate concerning the world distribution of income and its evolution over … analyzed. Second, we estimate a global distribution of income from national log-normal distributions of income, as well as a … global distribution of log-income as a mixture of national normal distributions of log-income. From this distribution we …
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households are more sensitive to income and consumption shocks. Large and well-educated households with unskilled jobs have …
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the national level, the local level is in focus to illuminate differences between municipalities. Studies on poverty are … no exception. The regional level contains a lot of information which is needed to understand the dynamics of poverty …. Without this information it is difficult to fight or mitigate poverty. The previous research focusing on i) regional aspects …
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This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...
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This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use heterogeneous … trade on income for 81 developed and developing countries, both for the sample as a whole and for each individual country … income. Our main finding s are: (i) A one percent increase in the trade share of GDP yields, on average, a statistically …
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the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and reductions in … exception of cognitive disabilities for men and, in some specifications, work disability for men and family income, estimates …
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Sub-Saharan Africa has been characterised by low-income levels for decades. This paper analyses the impact of economic … globalisation and democracy on income in sub-Saharan Africa using panel cointegration techniques. The paper considers a composite … globalisation on income has been beneficial, the total long run impact of democracy has been the bane of income in sub …
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The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that affect the creation of new firms. We take into consideration economic, political, social and technological factors which should also help governments realize the areas that we found to have the greatest impact. The study relies on data...
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