Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 42 Issue 1

Weights and substitution degree in multidimensional well-being in China

Esfandiar Maasoumi, Tong Xu

The purpose of this paper is to combine multidimensional welfare analysis and entropy metrics to derive not only the best relative weights but also substitution degree among…

What if you had been less fortunate: The effects of poor family background on current labor market outcomes

Sungwook Cho, Almas Heshmati

The purpose of this paper is to examine the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to the…

On inequality in health and pro-poor development: the case of Southeast Asia

Jacques Silber

The purpose of this paper is to aim at taking a closer look at the decline in the inequality of the distribution of four health variables, infant and child mortality, child…

Population ageing, income growth and CO2 emission: Empirical evidence from high income OECD countries

Kamrul Hassan, Ruhul Salim

The purpose of this paper is to attempts to explore the relationship between population ageing, income growth and CO₂ emission in 25 high-income Organization for Economic…

The impact of liberalisation policies on income inequality in African countries

Michael Enowbi Batuo, Simplice A. Asongu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of liberalisations policies on income inequality in African countries. Examining whether the liberalisations policies have…

Human capital, foreign direct investment stock, trade and the technology diffusion in Saudi Arabia 1974-2011

Bukhari M. S. Sillah

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors of technology diffusion in Saudi Arabia. It is a relevant study for Saudi Arabia, which has embarked on high gears of…

Welfare costs of crime and common violence

Rodrigo R. Soares

Negative effects of crime encompass several different dimensions. As a result, there is no existing methodology capable of dealing with all the relevant issues simultaneously and…

Nutrition and economic growth in South Africa: a threshold co-integration approach

Wisdom Dube, Andrew Phiri

– The purpose of this paper is to examine asymmetric co-integration effects between nutrition and economic growth for annual South African data from the period 1961-2013.

Efficiency of airlines: Hub and Spoke versus Point-to-Point

Luisa Marti, Rosa Puertas, Consuelo Calafat

The purpose of this paper is to study the efficiency and financial situation of Spanish airlines by conducting a comparative analysis of those operating in hubs and those that…

Guest editorial

Esfandiar Maasoumi, Almas Heshmati, Guanghua Wan