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Can the costs of education explain the poverty of nations? measuring the impact of factors taxation and life expectancy on productivity differences

Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti
2002-08-22

Growth,distribution and school policy

Andrade, Eduardo Carvalho de
1999-07-01

This paper investigates the relationship between growth, income inequality, and educational policies. An endogenous growth model is built in which there are two types of labor, skilled and unskilled, and the quality of the ...

Measurements of income inequality: a critique. Inflation and income inequality: a link through the job- search process

Cysne, Rubens Penha
2004-08-19

In this paper I claim that, in a long-run perspective, measurements of income inequality, under any of the usual inequality measures used in the literature, are upward biased. The reason is that such measurements are ...

Neighborhood feedbacks, endogenous stratification, and income inequality

Durlauf, Steven N.
1993-06-15

This paper explores the evolution of the cross-section income distribution in economies where endogenous neighborhood formation interacts with positive within-neighborhood feedback effects. We study an economy in which the ...

Old don't learn new tricks

Cunha, Flávio Augusto Rezende
2005-06-30

A theoretical connection between inflation and income inequality

Cysne, Rubens Penha
2004-01-15

This work investigates the effects of inflation on income distribution. We use a dynamic shopping-time model to show that a differentiated access to transacting technologies by poor and rich consumers is enough to generate ...