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decade. Galor identified three forms of long run percapita income convergence: absolute convergence, whereby convergence …
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As part of an endeavour to explain the divergence in incomes per capita between North and South America new institutional economics (NIE) and economic history have attempted in recent years to realize the potential effort for illumination derivable from comparisons of the heritage of their...
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It is worth distinguishing social exclusion from social isolation, definingsocial isolation as the phenomenon of non-participation (of anindividual or group) in a society’s mainstream institutions, whilereserving ‘social exclusion’ for the subset of cases in which socialisolation occurs...
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labor income taxation. Additional literature is motivated bythe possibility that distributive concerns should amend the …
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theory is that a household’s standard of livingis a function of income and needs. The extra costs of disability can be … derivedby comparing the standard of living of households with and without disabledmembers at a given income, having controlled … results, we compare and contrastthree different income distributions which differ in their adjustment for the extracosts of …
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substitutes. We find that there is a skill biasin cross-country technology differences. Higher-income countries use skilled … labormore efficiently than lower-income countries, while they use unskilled labor relativelyand, possibly, absolutely less …
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[...]In this paper, I draw on analyses that aimed todetermine whether impoverished U.S. locales varied byrace or urban/rural location in their rates and causes ofexcess mortality, and whether mortality gaps betweenimpoverished and other U.S. populations widened over thedecade from 1980 to 1990....
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Since the 1980s the debate about economic convergence hasdominated empirical work about the dynamics of growth. Economichistorians have been attracted, in particular, by stories of clubconvergence. However, the analytical foundations of most of the work inthis area have rested on linear, or more...
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The development of David Ricardo’s economic theory of distribution -the laws that determine the share of output between the economic classes -depended on specific connections at several levels between two practicalsciences of the early 19th century, namely experimental agriculture andpolitical...
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The distribution dynamics of incomes across Indian states are examined us-ing the entire income distribution rather … than using standard regression ap-proaches.The period 1965 to 1997 exhibits twin-peaked dynamics: there aretwo income …
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