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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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7733
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Sutirtha
Bagchi
Jan
Svejnar
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Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty
A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (3), 505-530)
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D31, O40, O43
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7732
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Govert
Bijwaard
Jackline
Wahba
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Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?
We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing countries. We use a three-state correlated competing risks model to account for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 108, 54-68 )
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F22, J61, C41
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7731
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Almas
Heshmati
Robert
Rudolf
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Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes
Using four rounds (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), this article examines determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. ...
(published in: Asian Economic Journal, 2014, 28(4), 413-436. )
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D63, D31, I31, C14
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7730
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Markus
Jäntti
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Income Mobility
This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in ...
(published in: AB Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds), Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2A, North-Holland Elsevier, 2015, Chapter 10, 807–935.)
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D31, I30
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7728
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Linguère
Mously
Mbaye
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'Barcelona or Die': Understanding Illegal Migration from Senegal
Fatalities from illegal immigration from Africa is an important issue, representing a major challenge for both major migrant sending and receiving countries. Nonetheless, almost nothing is known ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3, 21 (2014))
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F22, O15
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7727
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Sylvie
Démurger
Hui
Xu
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Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China
This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple illustrative model based on Dustmann (2003) that incorporates economic and non-economic ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4:10)
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J61, J13, C41, C25, O53
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7726
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Manuela
Angelucci
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Migration and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Mexico
Using data collected for the evaluation of the rural component of Oportunidades, Mexico's flagship anti-poverty program, I show that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary but ...
(revised version published in: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(1), 224-228)
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J61, O12, O15, F22
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7725
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Costanza
Biavaschi
Corrado
Giulietti
Zahra
Siddique
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The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization
We examine the impact of the Americanization of names on the labor market outcomes of migrants. We construct a novel longitudinal data set of naturalization records in which we track a complete ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (4), 1089-1116)
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J61, J62, Z1, N32
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7724
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Antonio
Di Paolo
Aysit
Tansel
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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey
Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51(4), 407-421)
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I25, J24, J31, O15, O53
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7723
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Todd
Pugatch
Elizabeth
Schroeder
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Incentives for Teacher Relocation: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 120-136)
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I25, I28, J38, J45, J61, O12, O15
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