aggregate relations. This paper establishes a bridge between the aggregation and the inequality and growth literature by …, implying that increases in income inequality may be unambiguously associated with temporary increases in a country’s growth …-run effects of income inequality may suffer from aggregation bias if the temporary effects of the MLD changes are not considered …

penetration. Keywords: cross-section models, income distribution, inequality, international economic order, economic welfare …

The effect of initial income inequality on growth is the subject of a large literature. We show, both analytically and … with simulation experiments, that the same level of initial income inequality can be associated with very different income … developments, depending on the source of the inequality. We consider three sources: differences in asset ownership, in productivity …

This article uses data from the 1998 European Union Household Panel to study economic inequality in Spain. It reports … data on the Spanish distributions of income, labor income, and capital income, and on related features of inequality, such …

While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality … first, that prevailing ideology may be an important determinant of inequality and, second, that the democratization effect … income groups, hence democratization may have only a negligible effect on inequality. We find this to be true for Confucian …

inequality, both within and across countries. We find that the welfare costs of inequality are significantly larger than the …-capita consumption, the costs of within-country and cross-country inequality are equivalent to a permanent reduction in per … positive rate of 2.1%) in exchange for the elimination of all within-country inequality. The gains of economic growth are …

(COMPUTABLE)GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM APPROACH, THAT IS A RENEW ATTENTION TO THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY , EMPLOYMENT AND INEQUALITY THAT EARLIER STRATEGIES …

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …