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Trade openness and income inequality : new empirical evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
of trade openness on inequality in China and transition countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599018
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
relationship between globalization and inequality in the transition countries including China and most countries of Middle and … characterize most advanced economies but are less developed in transition economies, may have moderated effects of globalization on …This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789164
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Structural reforms and income inequality : who benefits from market-oriented reforms?
Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; Wochner, Timo - 2020
We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest that market-oriented structural reforms were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154916
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The impact of liberalisation and globalisation on income inequality in developing and transitional economies
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 2003
This paper reviews changes in global, between-country and within-country inequality over 1980-2000 against the background of the shifts that occurred in this area during the globalisation of 1870-1914. The paper finds that recent changes in global and between-country inequality are not marked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514131
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Income inequality, capitalism and ethno-linguistic fractionalization
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2015 - Version 24 December 2014
We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our results suggest that there is no robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010474859
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Growth and inequality : evidence from transitional economies
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2002
The transitional economies of Eastern Europe (EE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU) experienced a dramatic increase in income inequality in the 1990s. In this paper I investigate the causes of unprecedented changes in income distribution using a unique panel of inequality estimates for 24...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410420
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Richer or more numerous or both? : the role of population and economic growth for top income shares
Krolage, Carla; Peichl, Andreas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2018
When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is important. This paper presents three alternative measures of top income shares that more explicitly account for population and income growth than the standard measure. We apply these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011939792
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Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? : conformism in East Germany and transition success
Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2021
seem to be driven by individual reactions to the transition, but rather by the removal of discriminatory practices in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745263
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Distributional implications of joint tax evasion
Nygård, Odd E.; Slemrod, Joel; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2016
Both buyers and sellers of goods and services may bene.t from letting their economic transactions go unrecorded for tax purposes. The supplier reduces his tax burden by underreporting income, whereas the consumer gains from buying a non-taxed lower-priced product. The distributional implications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481311
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Finance and income inequality : a review and new evidence
Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2016
Using a panel fixed effects model for a sample of 121 countries covering 1975-2005, we examine how financial development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work, our results suggest that all finance variables increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536253