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This paper investigates social mobility in Bolivia and discusses its implications for poverty reduction and long-run growth. Regressions based on household survey data show that social mobility is very low in Bolivia, even by Latin American standards. This is mainly caused by an inadequate...
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association of reduction of income inequality (redistribution) with subjective wellbeing. Their results provide evidence that … people in Europe are negatively affected by income inequality, whereas reduction of inequality has a positive effect on well … not only the outcome (inequality), but also the procedure (redistribution) that leads to the outcome influences subjective …
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This paper analyzes intergenerational redistribution in a 2-period overlapping-generations model of a representative … democracy. The model incorporates redistribution between generations and redistribution within generations, allowing for … political economy equilibrium is not Pareto-efficient. Redistribution results in equal consumption levels of individuals with …
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democracy with asymmetric information. The model considers not only redistribution between generations but also redistribution …, consumption levels are perfectly equalized within both generations. Second, a redistribution bias exists in favor of the old …
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In this paper redistribution policy is analyzed in a 2-period overlapping generations model with heterogeneous …
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poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …
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The distributions of income and wealth in countries across the world are found to possess some robust and stable features independent of the specific economic, social and political conditions of the countries. We discuss a few physics-inspired multi-agent dynamic models along with their...
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) and income inequality in the United States. Using panel cointegration techniques that allow for cross …-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous regressors, we find that the short-run effects of FDI on income inequality … negative effect on income inequality in the United States. This result for the United States as a whole does not imply that FDI …
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venture capital market. However, in Europe, private equity investments in enterprisesÂ’ early and expansion stages as well as …
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The proposal involves the establishment of ?welfare accounts? for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
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