Capital controls and distribution of income: Empirical evidence for Great Britain Japan and Australia

1992 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 558-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Checchi
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Capital Controls ◽  
Distribution Of Income

Innovation and Technological Change: An Austrian-British Comparison

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Alderman ◽  
M M Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Logit Models ◽  
Regional Patterns ◽  
Innovative Performance ◽  
New Process ◽  
Growing Body

Despite a growing body of empirical evidence that demonstrates the nature of spatial variations in innovation and the adoption of new technologies, few studies have been conducted in such a way as to enable direct comparisons between different countries, either to establish international differences in innovative performance or to identify differences in regional patterns in different national contexts, particularly between EC and non-EC countries within Europe. In this paper the results of recent surveys of comparable industries in Great Britain and Austria are used to begin to address this issue, with particular attention to some of the inherent difficulties in undertaking such comparisons. By using a mixture of simple cross-tabulations and multivariate logit models, differences between the two countries in the adoption of a number of new process technologies based upon microelectronics in the spheres of manufacturing production, design, and coordination are identified. It is suggested that, not only does Austria lag Great Britain in the introduction of new technology, but that variations between similar types of region are more pronounced and entrenched in Austria at the present time.

Tourism and poverty reduction: Empirical evidence from China

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Zhao ◽  
Xin Xia
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Reduction Effect ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Distribution Of Income

This study empirically examines whether tourism affects poverty reduction based on the panel data of Chinese provinces for the period from 1999 to 2014. Using more comprehensive Foster–Greer–Thorbecke index to decompose poverty into three indices, namely, headcount ratio, poverty gap, and poverty severity, we investigate the relationship between tourism and poverty indices within a single framework. The empirical analysis indicates that tourism has a positive effect on poverty reduction and the concomitant inequality in the distribution of income among the poor could weaken the poverty reduction effect of tourism. China’s western provinces confirm a stronger relationship between tourism and poverty reduction, although the effect of tourism on poverty in the eastern provinces is nearly negligible. We also identify possible mechanisms by which tourism may have an impact on poverty. The results provide empirical evidence to provide an improved assessment of the pro-poor effect of tourism in China.

scholarly journals Fascism for the British Audience

Fascism ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis Young
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Popular Front ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
World War ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Second World

A key player in the campaigns against fascism, the Communist Party of Great Britain (cpgb) has been subject of much attention by historians of anti-fascism. The Party’s approach to anti-fascism, through various campaigns such as the ‘united front from below’ and the Popular Front have been well documented, however its own analysis of fascism has been subjected to much less scrutiny. It has generally been accepted that the cpgb faithfully followed the interpretation of the Communist International. While this is true, this article will argue that the cpgb’s analysis of fascism was often adapted to suit the British political climate. By examining the cpgb’s approaches to ‘social fascism’, democracy and the British Union of Fascists (buf), this article will show that the cpgb’s analysis of fascism was much more fluid. Moreover it will suggest that the Party only adhered to the strictest of Comintern analyses at times of increased attention from Moscow. Finally this article will show that the cpgb’s analysis of fascism as an antithesis to all things ‘British’ survived, and indeed was strengthened, by the end of the Second World War. By 1945 its analysis of fascism was much more generic, following an economic and ideological reading as per the Stalinist interpretation, but with a strong focus on patriotism, and the empirical evidence of the destructive and murderous qualities of fascism as shown by the Holocaust.

scholarly journals Size and Distribution of Income in Great Britain

Nature ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 165 (4191) ◽  
pp. 312-312
Author(s):  
J. D. SARGAN
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Distribution Of Income

Lower pay - a better world?

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Social Harm ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Time Work ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Distribution Of Income

This article considers the clam that low wages or a greater degree of wage differentiation is a way to achieve higher employment and other desired outcomes. The empirical evidence for both Germany and the USA indicates that this is not the case. Taking Germany as an example, it is shown, among other things, that no 'employment miracle'has occurred even though wage differentials have increased in many forms, including within full-time work. The example of the USA illustrates very well that highly differentiated wages, in the context of a very unequal distribution of income, can even cause economic damage in the longer run - not to mention the social harm it inflicts. Thus the empirical evidence suggests that, on the contrary, flat income hierarchies are conducive to economic efficiency.

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