Calendrier du 11 décembre 2018
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 11/12/2018 de 17:00 à 18:00
FAJEAU Maxime ()
Non-linearities in finance-growth nexus
Du 11/12/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
écrit avec B. Garbinti, F.Savignac
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 11/12/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
YANG Li (ZEW Mannheim and WIL)
Robin Hood or Crony Capitalism? Income inequality trend in Malaysia (1984-2014) under long standing affirmative action program
écrit avec Abdul Khalid Muhammed
By combining national account, fiscal data, surveys, and demographic statistics, in this paper we build the first Distribution National Accounts (DINA) for Malaysia for the period of 2002-2014. Under the DINA framework, we systemically analysis the impact of long-lasting affirmative policies in Malaysia on inequality trend among and within different ethnic groups, e.g. Bumiputera, Chinese, and Indians. Our findings show that while the affirmative policies significant increase the income of the Bumiputera in the bottom (e.g. In the bottom 50%) from 2002 to 2014 , it is the Bumiputera on the top (e.g. In the top 1%) who benefit the most from the policies.