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Zucman, Gabriel - 2019

growing literature on wealth inequality across the world. Evidence points towards a rise in global wealth concentration: for … financial globalization makes it increasingly hard to measure wealth at the top. I discuss how new data sources (leaks from …

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Covid-19 and Global Income Inequality

Deaton, Angus - 2021

There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita incomes by more in poor countries than in rich. This supposition is reasonable but false. Rich countries have experienced more deaths per head than have poor countries; their...

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Global Inequality Dynamics : New Findings from Wid.World

Alvaredo, Facundo - 2017

This paper presents new findings on global inequality dynamics from the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world …

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Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Pinelopi - 2014

We discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income inequality in developing countries. We … begin with a discussion of conceptual issues regarding the measurement of globalization and inequality. Next, we present … empirical evidence on the evolution of globalization and inequality in several developing countries during the 1980s and 1990s …

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Income Inequality, Tax Base and Sovereign Spreads

Aizenman, Joshua - 2012

This paper investigates the association between greater income inequality, de-facto fiscal space, and sovereign spreads. Using data from 50 countries in 2007, 2009 and 2011, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a lower tax base, lower de-facto fiscal space, and higher...

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Inequality

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012

This paper reviews five striking facts about inequality across countries. As Kuznets (1955) famouslyfirst documented, inequality first rises and then falls with income. More unequal societies are muchless likely to have democracies or governments that respect property rights. Unequal societies...

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Misperceiving Inequality

Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2015

A vast literature suggests that economic inequality has important consequences for politics and public policy. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in dictatorships....

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Trends in U.S. Spatial Inequality : Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty

Gaubert, Cecile; Kline, Patrick; Vergara, Damian; … - 2022

We study trends in income inequality across U.S. states and counties 1960-2019 using a mix of administrative and survey data sources. Both states and counties have diverged in terms of per-capita pre-tax incomes since the late 1990s, with transfers serving to dampen this divergence. County...

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Inequality

Glaeser, Edward L.; Jovanovic, Boyan - 2010

In a growth model, rent-grabbing and free riding can give rise to inequality in productivity and firm size. Inequality among firms affects a firm's incentive to free ride or to grab rents, and, hence, the incentive to invest in research and training We follow Lucas and Prescott (1971) and...

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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality

Acemoglu, Daron; Naidu, Suresh; Restrepo, Pascual; … - 2013

In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail to be realized when democracy is captured by the...

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