562 research outputs found
Branko Britvec, dipl.ing. agr.
No full textU Zagrebu je 7.VIII 2011, u 86. godini života umro naš dragi Branko Britvec. Vijest o smrti dipl. ing. Branka Britveca, istaknutog znanstvenika entomologa, vrlo cijenjenog stručnjaka za zaštitu bilja i vrsnog pedagoga, bolno je odjeknula u srcima njegove obitelji, njegovih prijatelja, kolega, i svih koji su ga poznavali i s njime surađivali
Do more unequal countries redistribute more? does the median voter hypothesis hold?
No full textThe median voter hypothesis is important to endogenous growth theories because it provides the political mechanisms through which voters in more unequal countries re-distribute a greater proportion of income and thus (it is argued), by blunting incentives, reduce the country's growth rate. But he hypothesis was never properly tested because of lack of data on the distribution of (pre-tax and transfer) factor income across households, and hence on the exact amount of gain by the poorest quintile of poorest half. The author tests the hypothesis using t9 observations drawn from household budget surveys from 24 democracies. The data strongly support the hypothesis that countries with more unequal distribution of factor income redistribute more in favor of the poor - even when the analysis controls for the older people's share in total population (that is, for pension transfers). The evidence on the median voter hypothesis is much weaker. The author does find that middle-income groups gain more (or lose less) through redistribution in countries whereinitial (factor) income distribution is more unequal. This regularity evaporates, however, when pensions are dropped from social transfers and the focus is strictly on the more re-distributive social transfers.Income,Services&Transfers to Poor,Economic Theory&Research,Poverty Impact Evaluation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Inequality,Poverty Impact Evaluation,Economic Theory&Research,Safety Nets and Transfers,Services&Transfers to Poor
The Ricardian Vice: Why Sala-i-Martin’s calculations of world income inequality are wrong
No full textThe paper discusses recent world income inequality calculations by Sala- i-Martin. It shows that the two main problems with which the author had to grapple (too few data to derive countries’ income distributions, and sparseness of such data in time) are not solved in a satisfactory fashion. They, and several other simplifying assumptions, make Sala-i- Martin results very dubious. We argue that Sala-i-Martin has ended up by producing a population-weighted inter-national distribution of income augmented by a constant shift parameter and not a distribution of income among world citizens.income inequality, world, globalization
APPENDTX TO DIPTERA IMPORTANT FOR THB AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY OF CROATIA IN LIGHT OF THE FAUNISTIC RESEARCHES
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August Langhoffer - zaslužni hrvatski zoolog i entomolog
No full textKiszács kraj Novog Sada u Ugarskoj, 17. IV. 1861. – Zagreb, 28. III. 1940., povodom 150. obljetnice rođenja i 70. obljetnice smrt
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