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  1. 1. Are Distributional Variables Useful for Forecasting With the Phillips Curve?

    C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Författare :Elsa Rosengren; Pippa Johns; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Distributional Variables; Heterogeneous Agents; Inflation; Phillips Curve; Inequality;

    Sammanfattning : Does information on the distribution of wealth and income help us forecast aggregate macroeconomic variables? In this thesis, we study how adding such distributional variables to a standard forecasting model affects the forecast accuracy, in the context of inflation forecasting. Using the simulated inflation forecasting approach of Atkeson and Ohanian (2001), we perform a horse race between a textbook NAIRU Phillips curve to an extension augmented with variables from the wealth and income distributions. LÄS MER

  3. 2. FISCAL POLICY AND GENDER INEQUALITY : A CASE OF AGRICULTURE SECTOR IN NIGERIA

    Magister-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Nationalekonomi

    Författare :Adetutu O Emmanuel; [2023]
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    Sammanfattning : Over the years governmental efforts to resolve the issues of gender inequality particularly in the developing countries appear to be less significant, and some scholars have identified this failing as the bane of economic growth and development in such countries. It is argued that the consequences which stems from discrimination against women who constitute about 70% of agricultural labor market in Nigeria and their low empowerment in Nigeria's agriculture sector led to the overall low productivity in the country's agriculture sector. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Education as a Double-Edge Sword: Examining the Dynamics between Education Expansion and Wage Inequality in Colombia

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Laura Juanita Serna Velasco; [2023]
    Nyckelord :wage inequality; education expansion; Colombia; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between education and income inequality in Colombia. Using unconditional quantile regressions (UQR) this paper examines the wage returns of different education levels at various points of the wage distribution. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Boendesegregationen i Malmö : och hur sociala aktörer arbetar med den

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Författare :Iman Masic; Deneta Avdic Prlja; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Boendesegregation;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to explore how the city of Malmö is addressing residentialsegregation and the measures and tools that have been implemented, as well as how citizenparticipation has been applied in these processes. The study is based on a qualitativeinvestigation involving literature reviews, interviews, and observations. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Hur påverkar handel inkomstklyftor och fattigdom inom länder?

    Magister-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Nationalekonomi; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Författare :August Gudmundsson; Tobias Hector; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Income gaps; income inequality; income dispersion; absolute poverty; trade openness; Inkomstklyftor; inkomstojämlikhet; inkomstfördelning; absolut fattigdom; handelsöppenhet;

    Sammanfattning : In our thesis we seek the answer to if trade openness has an effect on income gaps within countries. Since different trade flows can have different effects based on who the trading partners are, we disaggregate the trade flows based on these criteria. LÄS MER