Where in the World are you? Assessing the Importance of Circumstance and Effort in a World of Different Mean Country Incomes and (Almost) No Migration

Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics: country where they live and income class within that country. Assume further that there is no migration. This paper shows that 90 percent of variability in people's g...

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Main Author: Milanovic, Branko
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/8969542/world-assessing-importance-circumstance-effort-world-different-mean-country-incomes-almost-no-migration-vol-1-1
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6391

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