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1“...The question of who benefits from economic growth is usually assessed by using cross section data to calculate changes in income inequality. An alternative is...”
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3“...Most of the world's people live in "developing" economies, as do most of the world's poor. The predominant means of economic development is economic growth. In...”
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4“...This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Our analysis...”
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5“...The world is plagued by a plethora of economic problems, which is why economics is sometimes called “the dismal science”. Two of these problems are at the core...”
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6by Gary S. Fields Published in Trimestre económico (01.04.2008)“...Los mercados de trabajo son importantes porque la mayoría de la gente, sobre todo los pobres, obtienen todo su ingreso, o la mayor parte de él, del trabajo que...”
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7by Fields, Gary S Published in Labour economics (2011)“...This paper is about analyzing labor markets in developing countries, searching for both improved understanding and greater policy relevance. Following a...”
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8“...This paper develops a new class of measures of mobility as an equalizer of longer-term incomes—a concept different from other notions such as mobility as...”
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9“...We consider a small set of elementary properties for income movement measures, and show that there is essentially only one measure that satisfies all of these...”
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10by Fields, Gary S Published in IZA journal of labor policy (01.12.2012)“...Of the world’s 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion...”
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11by Duval‐Hernández, Robert Fields, Gary S Jakubson, George H Published in The Review of income and wealth (01.12.2017)“...In this paper we reconcile, both theoretically and empirically, changes in cross‐sectional inequality with patterns of panel income changes during periods of...”
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13by Fields, Gary S“...More than three billion people in the world—half of humankind—live on less than two-and-a-half US dollars per person per day. Excellent books can be found on...”
14.12.2011
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14by FIELDS, GARY S Published in The Manchester school (01.12.2004)“...This paper asks how the Lewis model might be viewed from the perspective of economic science half a century later. Many of the core propositions remain intact,...”
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15by Fields, Gary S“...Economists have traditionally concentrated on aggregate economic growth to measure a country's development, but previously they have also considered income...”
31.12.1980
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16“...In recent years Argentina’s economy has experienced both rapid growth and severe decline. In this paper, we use a series of one-year long panels to study who...”
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17by Fields, Gary S Fields, Gary S Duval-Hernández, Robert Duval-Hernández, Robert Freije, Samuel Freije, Samuel Sánchez Puerta, María Laura Sánchez Puerta, María Laura Published in Journal of economic inequality (01.03.2015)“...This paper examines changes in individual earnings during positive and negative growth periods in three Latin American economies: Argentina, Mexico, and...”
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18by Fields, Gary S Published in Journal of development economics (2005)“...This paper presents a welfare economic analysis of the benefits of various labor market policies in the Harris–Todaro labor market model. The policies...”
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19by Jencks, Christopher Tach, Laura Dardanoni, Valentino Roemer, John Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura Grusky, David B Weeden, Kim A Goldthorpe, John McKnight, Abigail Abbott, Andrew Kim, Young-Mi Mare, Robert D Chang, Huey-Chi Breen, Richard Yaish, Meir Epstein, David Winship, Christopher Cunha, Flavio Heckman, James J Navarro, Salvador Bourguignon, Francois Goh, Chor-ching Kim, Dae Il Graham, Carol Eggers, Andrew Sukhtankar, Sandip Atkinson, Anthony B Brandolini, Andrea Morgan, Stephen L Fields, Gary S“..."How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors and...”
2006
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20by Fields, Gary S Published in Journal of policy modeling (2007)“...This paper asks how much we should care about changes in Lorenz curves and standard inequality measures when economic growth takes place. I conclude that these...”