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. This enables them to reduce the amount of redistribution and public good provision in democracy. Moreover, the inefficient … inefficient state is more likely to arise when there is greater inequality between the rich and the poor, when bureaucratic rents …
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Is inequality harmful for economic growth? Is the underdevelopment of Latin America related to its unequal distribution … of wealth? A recently emerging consensus claims not only that economic inequality has detrimental effects on economic … growth in general, but also that differences in economic inequality across the American continent during the 19th century are …
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Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare … entrepreneurs (thus greater inequality) increases entrepreneurial effort and hence a country's contribution to the world technology … “cutthroat” capitalism that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …
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automating work, fueling inequality, inefficiently pushing down wages, and failing to improve worker productivity; and damaging …
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Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal is...
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We show that even in the absence of diminishing returns in production and techno-logical spillovers, international trade leads to a stable world income distribution. This is because specialization and trade introduce de facto diminishing returns: countries that accumulate capital faster than...
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We document substantial within-country (cross-municipality) differences in incomes for a large number of countries in the Americas. A significant fraction of the within-country differences cannot be explained by observed human capital. We conjecture that the sources of within-country and...
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Is inequality harmful for economic growth? Is the underdevelopment of Latin America related to its unequal distribution … of wealth? A recently emerging consensus claims not only that economic inequality has detrimental effects on economic … growth in general, but also that differences in economic inequality across the American continent during the 19th century are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465445
. This enables them to reduce the amount of redistribution and public good provision in democracy. Moreover, the inefficient … inefficient state is more likely to arise when there is greater inequality between the rich and the poor, when bureaucratic rents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465912
The study of the bias of new technologies is important both as part of the analysis of the nature of technology adoption and the direction of technological change, and to understand the distributional implications of new technologies. In this paper, I analyze the equilibrium bias of technology....
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