Rossana Galli

• PhD Economics
• Lecturer at Franklin University Switzerland

This paper analyses long-term trends in energy intensity for ten Asian emerging countries to test for a non-monotonic relationship between energy intensity and income in our sample. We estimate energy demand functions during 1973 1990 using a quadratic function of log income. We find that the long-run coefficient on squared income is negative and s...

This paper aims at providing empirical information about agricultural labor intensities of large commercial farms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our hope is that this information can be used by Sub-Saharan African governments to design policies and incentives to attract private investors in agriculture conditional on the quantity and quality of employment...

This study is based on comparative analysis of tax and investment legislations currently used by several Saharan African, South Asian and South East Asian developing countries and on country-specific cases of financial incentives in the same regions. Based on this survey, the paper individuates common and innovative practices, and investigates the...

‘Burgeoning’ is a word that comes to mind to describe the recent literature addressing whether inequality is an important cause of financial crises. Among the strands of this literature are papers developing formal theoretical models (e.g. Al-Hussami and Remesal 2012; Charpe and Kühn 2012; Kumhof and Ranciere 2010) and those looking at historical d...

In recent decades Latin America has experienced a steady and substantial increase in the share of workers characterized by informal employment status. From 1990 to 1997, for instance, the share of informal employment for a group of 14 Latin American countries increased from 51.8 to 57.7 per cent, based on a definition of informal employment used by...

This paper addresses the hypothesis that higher labor standards––in particular freedom of association and collective bargaining rights––and higher wages in the formal sector reduce employment in that sector and thereby contribute to the informalization of employment. This issue is explored using panel data on specific categories of formal and infor...

This paper addresses three central issues in the debates on informal employment: trends in informalization, informal employment as a macroeconomic buffer over business cycles, and the effects of higher labour standards and stronger de facto worker rights on informal employment. In particular, we address the hypothesis that stronger "civic rights" -...

This paper explores theoretically and empirically the effects of monetary policy and inflation on income inequality in developed economies. The few empirical studies touching on this issue have given conflicting answers, and the impact on inequality remains puzzling. In an attempt to solve this puzzle we argue that the effects of monetary policy an...

This paper examines whether convergence is occurring at the industry level in 11 EU countries from 1960 to 1993. Both time series and non-parametric (σ-convergence) methods are applied. Using time series analysis we test whether there is within sector convergence towards a common steady state. Although we adopt a very flexible definition of steady...