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This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a … perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin … factor inputs and technology for growth …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … for 25 EU countries over the period 2007-2019, we show that market income inequality is associated with higher growth in … NBS) boosts growth in the short run, driven by the consumption and private investment channels. On the other hand …
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) but have moderate effects on the growth of subsequent years. Regional (per-capita) inequality is also evaluated using … discontinuity of per-capita GDP growth partitions Austria's regions into two groups. Clear evidence of discontinuity (a “take … Austria, Bohemia, Silesia, Galicia, Bukovina, and Dalmatia there is instead no evidence of structural break in their growth …
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This paper examines the role of international trade, and specifically imports from low-wage countries, in determining patterns of job loss in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2007. Motivated by intuitions from factor-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms...
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
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In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st … century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …
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An issue of interest in the literature that explores the drivers of inequality is the distributional bearing of tax and … judgements implicit in tax and transfer policy provides a fresh perspective on the evolution of income inequality and … redistribution; one that departs from the prevailing view that UK inequality stopped rising from the early 1990s. …
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Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument – the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …
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This paper explores the long-term effect of migration on economic inequality between the 28 EU member states, covering … significant effect on development and economic growth in 28 member states. However, the findings also indicate that some countries …
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Elite occupations are characterised by the magnitude of income accumulation which has been particularly exacerbated in the financialisation process. This paper however shows that the cumulative effects on group earnings is a pattern visible across the labour force. The case studies on the US and...
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