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Regional inequality, convergence, and its determinants : a view from outer space

Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 16.04.2015

regional inequality based on cross-section data. Panel regressions investigate the within-country changes in inequality, i …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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Inequality and economic growth : do natural resources matter?

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Gylfi Zoega - 2002

This paper is intended to demonstrate, in theory as well as empirically, how increased dependence on natural resources …-sector employment, lift the marginal productivity of capital in higher technology industries and thus increase the rate of interest and …

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Growth and inequality : evidence from transitional economies

Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2002

a unique panel of inequality estimates for 24 transitional countries for the period 1989-1998. The fixed effects model …

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Regional inequality and internal conflict : conference paper

Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: January 2013

use a panel data set of country-level regional inequalities, which covers 56 countries (835 subnational regions) between … well as OLS fixed effects panel regressions. I find that regional inequalities increase the risk of internal conflict. …

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Can there be a wave-like association between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons for East Asia from the Middle East

Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012

inequality. The paper estimates the model empirically by using a set of panel data for ten Middle Eastern countries. The …

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Is there a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons from ASEAN, People Republic of China and India

Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015

In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy...

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Does income inequality lead to terrorism?

Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2016

), that higher levels of income inequality are associated with more terrorism. Consistent with relative deprivation theory, we …

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