We study the interactions and dynamics of human capital, growth and inequality by explicitly embedding networks into a … differences across households and leads to long run equality, while below the threshold, inequality is high and persists more …

excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the ‘exporting’ of inequality across borders; and how this, in …

, which provides an integrated framework for analysing the local determinants of inequality and growth. Five main conclusions … inequality in education and income more persistent across generations. Whether the same is true of inequality in total wealth …

steady states arise because rents to human capital are self perpetuating. Inequality in abilities may be good for growth …

This paper examines how economic stratification affects inequality and growth over time. It studies economies where …

This paper explores the implications of the ongoing reorganization of firms for inequality in the labour market. We …, creating demands for new combinations of skills, and thereby leading to new patterns of wage inequality. Specifically, our …

neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … market where polygyny is not ruled out. Our model demonstrates, however, that while higher male inequality generates more … polygyny, higher female inequality produces a more monogamous equilibrium. Moreover, we derive how female inequality in the …