The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics in East Asia and Latin America / / edited by Francois Bourguigon, Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973360803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : World Bank; [New York], : Oxford University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1-280-08544-4; 9786610085446; 1-4175-5468-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xx, 416 pages : illustrations ; ; 24 cm
• Altri autori (Persone): BourguignonFrançois; FerreiraFrancisco H. G; LustigNora
• Disciplina: 339.2/2/098
• Soggetti: Income distribution - Southeast Asia; Income distribution - Taiwan; Income distribution - Latin America; Southeast Asia Economic conditions; Taiwan Economic conditions; Latin America Economic conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A copublication of the World Bank and Oxford University Press."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Decomposing Changes in the Distribution of Household Incomes: Methodological Aspects -- 3 Characterization of Inequality Changes through Microeconometric Decompositions: The Case of Greater Buenos Aires -- 4 The Slippery Slope: Explaining the Increase in Extreme Poverty in Urban Brazil, 1976-96 -- 5 The Reversal of Inequality Trends in Colombia, 1978-95: A Combination of Persistent and Fluctuating Forces -- 6 The Evolution of Income Distribution during Indonesia's Fast Growth, 1980-96 -- 7 The Microeconomics of Changing Income Distribution in Malaysia -- 8 Can Education Explain Changes in Income ; Inequality in Mexico? -- 9 Distribution, Development, and Education in Taiwan, China, 1979-94 -- 10 A Synthesis of the Results -- Index -- Figures -- 3.1 Gini Coefficient of Equivalent Household Income Distribution in Greater Buenos Aires, 1985-98 -- 3.2 Hourly Earnings-Education Profiles for Men (Heads of Household and Other Family Members), Age 40 -- 3.3 Hourly Earnings-Education Profiles for Women (Spouses), Age 40 -- 3.4 Weekly Hours of Work by Educational Level for Men (Heads of Household), Age 40 -- 4.1 Macroeconomic Instability in Brazil: Inflation -- 4.2 Macroeconomic Instability in Brazil: Per Capita GDP -- 4.3 Truncated Pen Parades, 1976-96 -- 4.4 Plotted Quadratic Returns to Education (Wage Earners) -- 4.5 Plotted Quadratic Returns to Experience (Wage Earners) -- 4.6 Combined Price Effects by Sector -- 4.7 Price Effects Separately and for Both Sectors Combined -- 4.8 Occupational-Choice Effects -- 4.9 The Labor Market: Combining Price and Occupational-Choice Effects -- 4.10 Demographic Effects -- 4.11 Shift in the Distribution of Education, 1976-96 -- 4.12 Education Endowment and Demographic Effects.; 4.13 A Complete Decomposition -- 5.1 Average Household Size by Income Decile in Urban Colombia, Selected Years -- 5.2 Change in Income from Changes of Returns to Education, Relative to Workers Who Have Completed Secondary Education: Male and Female Wage Earners in Urban Colombia, Selected Periods -- 5.3 Change in Income from Changes of Returns to Education, Relative to Workers Who Have Completed Secondary Education: Male and Female Self-Employed Workers in Urban Colombia, Selected Periods -- 5.4 Probability of Being Employed or a Wage Earner in Urban Colombia according to Various Individual or Household Characteristics, Various Groups of Household Members, Selected Years -- 5.5 Simulated Occupational-Choice and Participation Changes in Percentage Points by Percentile of Earnings for Urban Males and Females, 1978-88 -- 5.6 Simulated Occupational-Choice and Participation Changes in Percentage Points by Percentile of Earnings for Urban Males and Females, 1988-95 -- 5.7 Changes in Employment Rate by Income Percentile, Females in Urban Colombia, Selected Periods -- 6.1 Summary Decomposition of Changes in the Equivalized Household Distribution of Income -- 7.1 Changing Quantile Functions -- 7.2 Differences in Quantile Functions -- 7.3 Changing Lorenz Curves -- 7.4 Differences in Lorenz Curves -- 7.5 Household Quantile Curves: 1984 Baseline -- 7.6 Household Quantile Curves: 1989 Baseline -- 7.7 Quantile Curves: Simulated Values Minus 1984 Actual Values -- 7.8 Quantile Curves: Simulated Values Minus 1989 Actual Values -- 7.9 Lorenz Curves: Simulated Values Minus 1984 Actual Values -- 7.10 Lorenz Curves: Simulated Values Minus 1989 Actual Values -- 7.11 Household Quantile Curves: 1989 Baseline -- 7.12 Household Quantile Curves: 1997 Baseline -- 7.13 Quantile Curves: Simulated Values Minus 1989 Actual Values.; 7.14 Quantile Curves: Simulated Values Minus 1997 Actual Values -- 8.1 Observed Change in Individual Earnings by Percentile in Mexico, 1984-94 -- 8.2 Change in Women's Labor-Force Participation by Education Level in Mexico, 1984-94 -- 8.3 Returns to Education for Men by Location, Education Level, and Type of Employment in Mexico, 1984 and 1994 -- 8.4 Effect of Labor Choices on Earnings by Percentile in Mexico, 1984-94 -- 8.5 Effect of Educational Gains on Earnings by Percentile in Mexico, 1984-94 -- 8.6 Effect of Changes in Returns to Education on Earnings by Percentile in Mexico, 1984-94 -- 8.7 Effect of Urban-Rural Disparities on Earnings by Percentile in Mexico, 1984-94 -- 9.1 Evolution of Income Inequality, 1979-94 -- 9.2 Elasticity of Spouses' Occupational Choice with Respect to Head of Household's Earnings -- 9.3 1979-94 Variation in Individual Earnings Caused by the ; Price Effect, by Centiles of the 1979 Earnings Distribution -- 9.4 Simulated Entries into and Exits from the Wage Labor Force -- 9.5 Simulation of the 1994 Education Structure on the 1979 Population -- 9.6 1979-94 Variation in Household Income Caused by the Price Effect, by Centiles of the 1979 Distribution of Equivalized Household Income Per Capita (EHIP) -- 9.7 Entries into and Exits from the Labor Force: Overall Participation Effect -- 9.8 Effects of Imposing the 1994 Education Structure on the 1979 Population -- 9.9 Effects of Imposing the 1994 Children Structure on the 1979 Population: Relative Variation by Centile of the 1979 Distribution of Equivalized Household Income -- Tables -- 1.1 Selected Indicators of Long-Run Structural Evolution -- 3.1 Distributions of Income in Greater Buenos Aires, Selected Years -- 3.2 Hourly Earnings by Educational Levels in Greater Buenos Aires, Selected Years -- 3.3 Log Hourly Earnings Equation Applied to Greater Buenos Aires, Selected Years.; 3.4 Hourly Earnings by Gender in Greater Buenos Aires, Selected Years -- 3.5 Weekly Hours of Work by Educational Levels in Greater Buenos Aires, Selected Years -- 3.6 Hours of Work Equation for Greater Buenos Aires, Selected Years -- 3.7 Labor Status by Role in the Household in Greater Buenos Aires, Selected Years -- 3.8 Composition of Sample by Educational Level in Greater Buenos Aires, Selected Years -- 3.9 Decompositions of the Change in the Gini Coefficient: Earnings and Equivalent Household Labor Income in Greater Buenos Aires, 1986-92 -- 3.10 Decompositions of the Change in the Gini Coefficient: Earnings and Equivalent Household Labor Income in Greater Buenos Aires, 1992-98 -- 3.11 Decompositions of the Change in the Gini Coefficient: Earnings and Equivalent Household Labor Income in Greater Buenos Aires, 1986-98 -- 3.12 Decomposition of the Change in the Gini Coefficient: Average Results Changing the Base Year in Greater Buenos Aires, Selected Periods -- 4.1 General Economic Indicators for Brazil, Selected Years -- 4.2 Basic Distributional Statistics for Different Degrees of Household Economies of Scale -- 4.3 Stochastic Dominance Results -- 4.4 Educational and Labor-Force Participation Statistics, by Gender and Race -- 4.5 Equation 4.2: Wage Earnings Regression for Wage Employees -- 4.6 Equation 4.3: Total Earnings Regression for the Self-Employed -- 4.7 Simulated Poverty and Inequality for 1976, Using 1996 Coefficients -- 4A.1 Real GDP and GDP Per Capita in Brazil, 1976-1996 -- 4A.2 PNAD Sample Sizes and Missing or Zero Income Proportions -- 4A.3 A Brazilian Spatial Price Index -- 4A.4 Brazilian Temporal Price Deflators, Selected Years -- 4A.5 Ratios of GDP Per Capita to PNAD Mean Household Incomes, 1976-96 -- 4B.1 Evolution of Mean Income and Inequality: A Summary of the Literature.; 5.1 Decomposition of Total Inequality between Rural and Urban Areas, Selected Years -- 5.2 Labor-Market Indicators in Urban and Rural Areas, Selected Years -- 5.3 Changes in Sociodemographic Characteristics in Urban and Rural Areas, Selected Years -- 5.4 Earnings Equations of Wage and Self-Employed Male and Female Urban Workers, Selected Years -- 5.5 Earnings Equations of Wage and Self-Employed Male and Female Rural Workers, Selected Years -- 5.6 Marginal Effect of Selected Variables on Occupational Choice among Wage Earners, Self-Employed Workers, and Inactive Individuals for Urban Heads of Household, Spouses, and Other Household Members, and All Rural Workers, Selected Years -- 5.7 Decomposition Income Distribution Changes for Households and Individual Workers in Urban and Rural Colombia: Changes in the Gini Coefficient, Selected Periods -- 5.8 Mean Income: Effect of Change in the Constant of the Earnings Equation -- 5.9 Simulated Changes in Participation and Occupational Choice in Urban Colombia, Selected Periods -- 6.1 Evolution of Mean ; Household Income, 1980-96 -- 6.2 Evolution of the Socioeconomic Structure of the Population, 1980-96 -- 6.3 Evolution of the Personal Distribution of Income, 1980-96 -- 6.4 Individual Wage Functions by Gender and Area, 1980-96 -- 6.5 Household Profit Functions and Nonfarm Activities, 1980-96 -- 6.6 Simulated Evolution of Typical Incomes: Price Effect -- 6.7 Decomposition of Changes in the Distribution of Individual Earnings -- 6.8 Decomposition of Changes in the Distribution of Household Income Per Capita -- 6.9 Mean and Dispersion of Household Incomes according to Some Characteristics of Heads of Households -- 6.10 Occupational-Choice Behavior, 1980-96 -- 6.11 Simulated Changes in Occupational Choices, Whole Population -- 6.12 Simulated Changes in Occupational Choices, Rural and Urban Population.; 7.1 Location of Actual Distribution of Per Capita Household Income, 1984 and 1989, 1989 and 1997.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is about how the distribution of income changes during the process of income development. Understanding development and the process of poverty reduction requires understanding not only how total income grows but also how its distribution behaves over time. The authors propose a decomposition of differences in entire distributions of household incomes, shedding new light on the powerful, and often conflicting, forces that underpin the changes in poverty and inequality that accompany the process of economic development. This approach is applied to three East Asian countries -- Indonesia, Malaysia, and China -- and to four in Latin America -- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.

Clash or cooperation of civilizations? : overlapping integration and identities / / edited by Wolfgang Zank

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956723203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2008
• ISBN: 1-315-57234-6; 1-317-16531-4; 1-317-16530-6; 1-281-96904-4; 9786611969042; 0-7546-9551-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 225 p
• Collana: The international political economy of new regionalisms series
• Altri autori (Persone): ZankWolfgang
• Disciplina: 303.48/261056; 303.48217492704
• Soggetti: Culture conflict - Africa, North; Culture conflict - Middle East; Social integration - Africa, North; Social integration - Middle East; Civilization, Western; Islamic civilization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Overlapping Identities and Integration Processes in the Mediterranean Basin; 2 A Clash of Civilizations inside the MENA Countries? Islamist versus Secular Civil Society and the Failure of Pro-democracy Policies; 3 Beyond the Clash of Civilizations: The Rapprochement of Turkish Islamic Elite with the West; 4 The Alliance of Civilizations: The Spanish Approach to Bridging the Divide between Islam and the West; 5 Obstacles to African Unity - A Deutschian Perspective; 6 The Gradual Europeanization of North Africa: From "Arab Socialism" to a "Stake in EU's Internal Market"7 European Security and the "Clash of ; Civilizations": Differences in the policies of France, Germany and the UK towards the Mediterranean and the Middle East; 8 Citizenship and Cultural Clashes: The Cartoon Crisis and Changing Notions of Citizenship; 9 "Enriched by Open Borders and a Lively Variety of Languages, Cultures and Regions": Cooperation and Integration in the EU in spite of Cultural Diversity; 10 Some Concluding Remarks on Overlapping Integration in the Mediterranean Basin; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This comprehensive volume focuses on overlapping identities and integration processes in the Mediterranean basin and queries to what extent these various identities and integration processes are compatible or in conflict. Incorporating both theoretical and empirical material, it unites contributions from a variety of countries, thus exploring these issues from different perspectives.