fertility decisions and wages. We show that growth increases inequality and fertility differentials controlled for the initial …

negative relationship between growth and income inequality observed in the cross-country data and the positive relationship … growth rate and increase inequality. Redistributive taxation lowers inequality but blunts the incentive to accumulate … barriers to formality may account for the negative relationship between growth and inequality found in the cross-country data …

The present work encloses an analysis related to the channels through which income inequality affects economic growth … finding that the fiscal effects of inequality on growth may depend on the government expenditure covariate. Secondly, we … constructed a political instability index using principal components analysis, and look at its influence on income inequality and …

We examine the impact that financial development had on earnings inequality in Brazil in the 1980’s and 90’s. The … markets had a significant and robust effect in reducing inequality during the period investigated. We suggest that this is not … aimed at the poor, alleviates the high inequality present in Brazil and consequently improves welfare without distorting …

Using a panel data set of countries this paper shows that the inequality-growth relationship follows an ordinary …-U curve during the period 1970-98, in which inequality first decreases and then increases with economic growth. In addition … permanent positive trend. It also indicates that only a few countries reverse inequality in a latter stage and display a maximum …

The effect of income inequality on savings and consumption has remained an open empirical issue despite several decades … of research. Results obtained in this study indicate that income inequality and private consumption are both I(1) non …-stationary variables that are cointegrated, and inequality has had a negative effect on private consumption in Central-European and Nordic …