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In their famous paper on the “Big Push”, Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny (1989) show how the combination of increasing returns to scale at the firm level and pecuniary externalities can give rise to a poverty trap, thereby formalising an old idea due to Rosenstein-Rodan (1943). We develop in...
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inequality are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases … by 20 percent in the short-run, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …
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growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …
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When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … income growth than the standard measure. We apply these measures to long-term income data from the United States and find … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …
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We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows … higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with …
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theory involving capital and labour without neo-classical assumptions. Interestingly the growth story of the model seems to … be observationally equivalent to the Solow (1956) model of steady state growth. It can easily and effectively reflect on … critical contemporary issues without the ammunitions of a more complex neo-classical system. Trade pampers inequality all …
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intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk aversion. If growth increases (reduces) intra-generational inequality, the SDR is … lower (higher) and the SCC higher (lower) than along an inequality-neutral growth path, especially if intra-generational and …A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and …
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all variables, thus makes several explicit and novel predictions. This includes how income and inequality depend on … country size; that income growth will be a U-shaped function of initial income thus creating differentiated convergence; and …
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specialization and trade on growth and inequality for a small developing country. Among other results, we show that a small … intermediate good, then embed it in a growth model to address the effects of global production fragmentation, vertical … is skilled-labor scarce. We also address the effects of such trade opening on wage inequality. …
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between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can …) economies are two-fold: first, we observed that for low values of economic growth, inequality and growth bear an inverted U … relationship between growth and inequality can take the form of a wave. Secondly, we examine the issue of the existence of …
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