authors focus on four aspects of distribution outcomes: (1) earnings and income inequality; (2) the relative earnings of the …

economic efficiency and social equality, a view neatly summarized in the title of Okun's famous book, Equality and Efficiency … that social policy and greater equality may actually contribute to higher productivity growth. Richard Harris surveys two … new endogenous growth theory that suggests that increases in inequality can hurt growth. …

issues of social inequality and poverty. He argues that there has been no flagging in redistributive effort in Canada and he …

, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2009 period. It finds that in …

, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2010 period. It finds … were offset by declines in the equality and economic security domains. The recent recession caused a decline in the IEWB …

productivity. In the fifth and final section two papers examine the relationship between social policy, inequality and productivity …

. Inequality was notably lower in Canada, with a Gini coefficient of 0.285 for equivalent LIMEW in 2005, compared to a US …

household’s total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …

increasing income inequality, mostly between rural and urban areas but also within both rural and urban areas and across regions … results do not show that trends in inequality have a significant effect on poverty. However, the process of economic growth …, besides bringing the benefits of productivity increases, also brings structural adjustments that exacerbate income inequality …

also found that the higher is income inequality within a country the more limited is the impact of growth on reducing … relationships between productivity growth, poverty and inequality. The present study uses several sources of international data on … labour productivity, poverty and income inequality, and finds that across the developing countries for which data are …