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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 this...
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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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of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital accumulation, income and inequality … 20 percent in the shortrun, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality decreases … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …
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This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality increases with growth. The paper argues that the methodologies used in many of the empirical applications, designed to …
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dramatic drop in cooperation (and growth), when inequality is increased by a selfserving dictator. No such effect is observed … adverse growth effect of the interaction between the degree and the genesis of inequality. We conclude that economies giving … equal opportunities to all are not likely to suffer retarded growth due to inequality in the way economies with self …
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partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined … inequality in rich countries. It is argued that using some unadjusted inequality measures in growth regressions may yield …
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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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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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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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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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