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Impact of 2001 Building Technology, state and community programs on United States employment and wage income

MJ Scott; DJ Hostick; DB Elliott - 2008

The Department of Energy Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS) is interested in assessing the potential economic impacts of its portfolio of programs on national employment and income. A special purpose version of the IMPLAN input-output model allied In Build is used...

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A structural analysis of natural gas consumption by income class from 1987 to 1993

Poyer, D.A. - 2009

This study had two major objectives: (1) assess and compare changes in natural gas consumption between 1987 and 1993 by income group and (2) assess the potential influence of energy policy on observed changes in natural gas consumption over time and across income groups. This analysis used U.S....

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Effect of NAFTA on Mexico's Income Distribution in the Presence of Migration

Garduno-Rivera, Rafael - 2010

This paper asks how NAFTA affected income distribution within Mexico considering changes in internalmigration. Trade liberalization should theoretically increase the income of low-skilled workers in low-skilled labor-abundantdeveloping countries. Thus, by increasing the wages of poorer workers,...

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Income Distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility

Chen, Daniel L.; Kremer, Michael - 2002

Developing countries with highly unequal income distributions, such as Brazil or South Africa, face an uphill battle in reducing inequality. Educated workers in these countries have a much lower birth rate than uneducated workers. Assuming children of educated workers are more likely to become...

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Income Inequality and Racial/Ethnic Infant Mortality in the United States

Jesmin, Syeda Sarah - 2008

The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality rates (IMRs) for African-Americans. The conceptual framework for this study is derived from Richard Wilkinson's psychosocial environment interpretation of the income inequality and...

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Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Income Distributions in Poland and Russia

Berkowitz, Daniel; Jackson, John E. - 2005

Differences in the evolution of income distribution in Poland and Russia in the post-socialist era are striking: for example, in Poland, the gini coefficient on earnings went from 0.28 to 0.33 between 1988 and 1998 while in Russia it went from 0.27 to 0.47 (UNICEF, 2001). We argue that these...

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Income Distribution and Price Controls: Targeting a Social Safety Net During Economic Transition

Alexeev, Michael; Leitzel, James - 1999

During the ongoing post-communist economic transitions, the relative well-being of many people is changing rapidly, and governments are not well positioned to accurately measure individual living standards. Under such circumstances, continued price controls over basic consumer goods within the...

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Farm level effects of EU policy liberalization: Simulations based on an EU-wide agricultural sector model and a supply model of the German agricultural sector

Deppermann, Andre; Grethe, Harald; Offermann, Frank - 2010

The impact of sectoral or economy wide policy scenarios is often of strong political and public interest, yet it is a scientific challenge. When analyzing different levels of aggregation, the use ofsingle models may not be sufficient. In this paper we establish an interface between the European...

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The scope and extent of home-based business income relative to employment earnings in financing basic household expenditures: a study in the sub-economic housing area of Kleinvlei...

Pick, Bernard - 2002

The scope and extent of home-based businesses and the determination of the method by which the greater portion of household income is generated, in poor neighbourhoods, is the crux ofthis study.The study was undertaken among the 2245 households in the Kleinvlei sub-economic housing area located...

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Countering economic inequality : problems and prospects in Uttarakhand, India

Kellogg, Rob - 1999

world. The author comes full circle to the original exploratory question “equality of what? and posits the answer to the … life around the world. Finally, the South Indian state of Kerala was highlighted to reinforce the argument against a purely … valuable social opportunities in the developing world for the poorest of the poor. The research findings from the field …

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