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 …

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 …

whether the inequality of income has diminished within and between countries over time. Gini's generalised family indices …The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to … the results obtained to different degrees of inequality aversion and to different equivalence scales, taking into account …

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 …

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 …