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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...
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397182
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How economic growth impinges on income inequalities?
Alves, José; Coelho, José Carlos; Roxo, Alexandre - 2022
Performing a panel data analysis for OECD countries, during the period between 1990 and 2019, this article investigates the relationship between economic growth and income inequalities. The main objective is to understand how the GDP and GNI per capita affect income inequality and how they...
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Trade openness and income inequality : new empirical evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...
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Education, social equality and economic growth : a view of the landscape
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Gylfi Zoega - 2003
Education has been one of the key determinants of economic growth around the world since 1965. In this paper, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506215
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All about the giants : probing the influences on growth and income inequality at the end of the 20th century
Berry, R. Albert; Serieux, John - 2003
This paper presents estimates of world output growth from 1970 to 2000, the distribution of income among countries and … persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a … series of simulation exercises that attempt isolate the effect of particular country and regional experiences on world output …
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Self-serving dictators and economic growth
Haile, Daniel; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Verbon, Harrie - 2003
A new line of theoretical and empirical literature emphasizes the pivotal role of fair institutions for growth. We present a model, a laboratory experiment, and a simple cross-country regression supporting this view. We model an economy with an unequal distribution of property rights, in which...
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2002
When types of workers are imperfect substitutes, the Mincerian rate of return to human capital is negatively related to the supply of human capital. We work out a simple model for the joint evolution of output and wage dispersion. We estimate this model using cross-country panel data on GDP and...
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The economic effects of democratic participation
Mueller, Dennis C.; Stratmann, Thomas - 2002
Considerable concern has been expressed in recent years about declines in voter participation rates in the United States and in several other major democratic countries. Some feel low participation rates introduce a class bias into the political process and thereby worsen the outcomes from it....
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