Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on … the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmission and income inequality … income inequality to decline. The conjoined parameters retard growth's inequality-enhancing effect and thus facilitate long …

This paper examines the empirical relationship between inequality and growth, and analyzes the impacts of growth …, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that … challenge the belief that income inequality has a negative effect on growth and confirm the validity of the Kuznets curve …

inequality, while fiscal expansions lower inequality. The results are robust to several measures of income distribution and size … medium-term inequality multiplier. This is on average about 1 in our sample, meaning that a cumulative decrease in government …

The combination of stagnant growth and high levels of income inequality renewed the debate about whether a more even … distribution of income can spur economic activity. This paper tests for cross-country convergence in income inequality and … empirical challenges plaguing the literature. We find that income inequality is converging across countries, and that its impact …

This paper provides evidence of a strong relationship between the short-term dynamics of growth and inequality in … developing economies. We find that reductions in inequality during growth upswings are largely reversed during growth slowdowns … channel through which fluctuations in growth affect future dynamics in inequality. These findings suggest that both the …

contributing tosignificant increases in inequality-that is, they pose an equity-efficiency trade-off. Behindthis average lies …

, resulting in rising inequality. We find that domestic policies can mitigate the adverse distributional effects of globalization …

We review the debate on the association of financial globalization with inequality. We show that the within …