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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME"”.
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Essays in the theory of the distribution of income.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.
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Central City Fiscal Policy and the Intrametropolitan Distribution of Income
… in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:06:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7803948.pdf: 3780328 bytes, checksum: 779b8a7ed8d82de8ad7037bd26706e49 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Financial development, credit rationing and the distribution of income: South Africa 1913-2008
This paper provides a theoretical examination of the impact of financial development and credit constraints on earnings inequality in the country between 1923 and 2008. The time-span is particularly interesting, as it includes three distinct political regimes: colonialism, apartheid and democracy.
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Biased Technical Change, Institutional Shift, and the Functional Distribution of Income: Who Benefits from Economic Growth?
… a widening divergence between the growth of average and median real hourly labor compensation and the average growth of labor productivity. This decoupling between labor compensation and productivity indicates a decline in the labor share of national income. Opposite to movements in the …
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Sources of Productivity Growth and Its Relation to the Distribution of Income in Industrialized Countries and Korea
Income growth and a more equitable distribution of income with the alleviation of poverty are the most important concern of the economists. So, the area of economic growth and income distribution has been drawing growing attention to many development economists and policy makers since the early …
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Income distribution in Virginia: the effect of intersectoral linkages on the short-run size distribution of income in small regions
The purpose of this study is to assess the role intersectoral linkages play in shaping the short-run size distribution of household income. Input-output models are constructed for four regions in Virginia using secondary data. Two distinguishing features of these models are that the household …
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The Role of Monetary Policy in the Functional Income Distribution and Economic Growth in a Money Manager Capitalist System: The Case of United States of America: 1970 - 2015
The present dissertation analyzes the impact of monetary policy on the functional distribution of income, focusing on the United States as a case study. It explores how monetary policies negatively impact labor share in the context of Money Manager Capitalism. The dissertation brings back Hyman …
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The Role of Bargaining Power
Neoclassical theory omits the role of bargaining power in the determination of wages. As a result, the importance of changes in the bargaining position for the development of income shares in the last decades is underestimated. This paper presents a theoretical argument why collective bargaining …
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Inequality within and between New Zealand urban areas
A better understanding of the drivers of changes in the distribution of personal income continues to be of interest to academics, policy makers and the general public. While the focus has often been on the role of economic factors, socio-demographic factors play an important role as well. This …
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A hierarchical and longitudinal analysis of the effects of international food and agricultural commodity price surges on domestic income distribution
… debated among development scholars and professionals is whether the distribution of income within nations is becoming less equitable due to the forces of globalization. This study investigated the effect of a single global economic event, the 2006 to 2008 global food price surges, on …
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Industrial protection and income distribution in Thailand
… has been marked by the growing dominance of the manufacturing sector. The share of manufacturing in GDP and in total exports has increased markedly. At the same time, there has been a sluggish increase in the share of manufacturing employment in the total labour force. Consequently, the …
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Industrial protection and income distribution in Thailand
… has been marked by the growing dominance of the manufacturing sector. The share of manufacturing in GDP and in total exports has increased markedly. At the same time, there has been a sluggish increase in the share of manufacturing employment in the total labour force. Consequently, the …
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Properties of Weighted Generalized Beta Distribution of the Second Kind
<p>Author's abstract: In this thesis, a new class of weighted generalized beta distribution of the second kind (WGB2) is presented. The construction makes use of the conservability approach' which includes the size or length-biased distribution as a special case. The class of WGB2 is used as …
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The distributive effects of inflation stabilization policies in Brazil: A CGE modeling approach
The purpose of this dissertation is to construct an economywide simulation model of Brazil which serves as a tool to quantify the effects of alternative inflation stabilization policies on the distribution of income. The model includes five household classes, five production sectors, four types of …
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The Contribution of Financial Institutions to Thai Economic Development
… factor in economic development. The development of financial institutions and markets is part of the economic development process, and it is assumed that such financial growth will contribute to real economic growth. Four main issues exist with regard to the importance of financial markets in …
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Abertura externa e liberalização financeira: impactos sobre crescimento e distribuição no Brasil dos anos 90
… 90's affected the country's economic growth and income distribution. More specifically, it will be discussed how trade and financial liberalization caused an increasing financial fragility and economic vulnerability in Brazil, posing an external constraint to economic growth during the last …
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The financing of health care and health sciences education and training in South Africa
The aim of this study was to critically analyse the funding and expenditure patterns of institutions training health personnel. This included an investigation of the distribution of income from the various sources by geographic areas (i.e. by province), between historically white and black training …
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Towards a Heterodox Theory of Income Distribution
The present study seeks to examine a number of important questions in the theory of income distribution from a heterodox economic perspective, an approach to economic theory that is inherently interdisciplinary. The primary questions concern the Cambridge critique of orthodox economics, the …
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Essays on the relationship between public transit usage and obesity
My dissertation consists of two essays which analyze the impact of public transit usage on obesity. Chapter 1 introduces the backgrounds of this field and layout the general framework of this thesis work. Chapter 2 conducts a cross sectional study on the impact of county population level public …
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Voting for Corruption: How Poverty and Inequality Undermine Democratic Accountability in Latin America
<p>Why do citizens fail to hold their elected officials democratically accountable for corruption? In this dissertation, I argue that poverty and inequality undermine democratic accountability for corruption by creating opportunities for elected officials to mobilize political support through …
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