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grounds. The first is that they prevent corruption, the second is that they democratize the financing of campaigns by …
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relying on a channel whereby inequality affects the behaviour of aggregate demand and thus influences the incentives a firm … different fiscal policies, either demand or supply-orientated. The main findings are that high inequality leads to a large …
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aggregate relations. This paper establishes a bridge between the aggregation and the inequality and growth literature by …, implying that increases in income inequality may be unambiguously associated with temporary increases in a country’s growth …-run effects of income inequality may suffer from aggregation bias if the temporary effects of the MLD changes are not considered …
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penetration. Keywords: cross-section models, income distribution, inequality, international economic order, economic welfare …
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This article uses data from the 1998 European Union Household Panel to study economic inequality in Spain. It reports … data on the Spanish distributions of income, labor income, and capital income, and on related features of inequality, such …
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LISTE EINIGER WICHTIGER ABKÜRZUNGEN 4 ZUM GELEIT 6 EINFÜHRUNG UND PROBLEMAUFRISS - INTERNATIONALE SOZIALPOLITIK BEDEUTET FÖRDERUNG DER KONVERGENZ DER LEBENSBEDINGUNGEN 7 TEIL A: SOZIALRECHT UND SOZIALPOLITIK DER EU 14 1) ENTWICKLUNGSLINIEN UND GRUNDPRINZIPIEN DER EUROPÄISCHEN SOZIALPOLITIK...
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With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...
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The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to … the Monetary Union. Using the information contained in the European Community Household Panel, corresponding to the four … whether the inequality of income has diminished within and between countries over time. Gini's generalised family indices …
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The effects of globalization on income distribution within rich and poor countries are a matter of controversy. While international trade theory in its most abstract formulation implies that increased trade and foreign investment should make income distribution more equal in poor countries and...
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MIMIC models are being used to estimate the size of the underground economy or the tax gap in various countries. In this paper I examine critically both the method in general and three applications of the method by Giles and Tedds (2002), Bajada and Schneider (2005) and Dell’Anno and Schneider...
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