Zusammenfassung Prominente Mikrodatenbasis für die Analyse von Einkommen und ihrer Verteilung ist die Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS). Allerdings sind hohe Einkommen über der „Abschneidegrenze" von 35 000 DM Haushaltsnettoeinkommen pro Monat nicht vorhanden. In dieser Studie wird...

Purpose – Measures of inequality determine the effectiveness of social and economic policies aimed at reducing inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare improving impacts of reducing income inequality in the...

We construct an overlapping generations model to study the effect of capital controls on human capital investments and the incidence of redistributive taxation in a growing economy. We argue that the conventional wisdom linking higher capital controls to lower growth is reproduced only when an...

Europe's economic performance has deteriorated continuously over the last two decades both in terms of its unemployment and its labor force participation rate; more recently its productivity has declined relative to the United States. This is due to a complex interaction between the how these...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of utility and production externalities on the equilibrium efficiency, and to devise tax policies capable of correcting the distortions caused by the external effects. Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyzes a...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to analyse the cross‐country variation in the growth elasticity of poverty across a sample of developing countries during the period from 1990 to 2000. Design/methodology/approach – In order to identify variables that may explain the cross‐country...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a financial liberalization index (FLI) and evaluate its impact on agricultural growth. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses the autoregressive distributed lag approach to determine the long run and short coefficients. Findings – The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider critically Government policy options in achieving growth through skills acquisition and deployment. Design/methodology/approach – The approach takes the form of a review of policies drawing on literature from a number of countries. Findings...

Zusammenfassung Die Bedeutung von Transaktionskosten für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung war in den letzten Jahrzehnten Gegenstand zahlreicher ökonomischer Forschungsansätze. Nur ein sehr kleiner Teil davon wählte eine empirische Herangehensweise. Dieser Aufsatz beginnt mit einem kurzen...