addition to the inequality-growth relationship, we examine the direct influence of effective redistribution. When net … inequality is held constant, public redistribution negatively affects economic growth. Redistribution hampers investment and … net inequality, the overall impact of redistribution is insignificant. Whereas this result stems mainly from advanced …

The relationship between income inequality and economic growth is complex. Some inequality is integral to the effective … functioning of a market economy and the incentives needed for investment and growth. But inequality can also be destructive to … finds that the duration of growth spells is robustly associated with more equality in the income distribution. Inequality …

inequality and economic growth, implying the conclusion that inequality reducing policies will foster economic growth. The … likely to suffer from a severe weak instrument problem in the inequality-growth setting because lagged differences of … inequality have practically no explanatory power for current inequality levels. Thus, it is biased in the direction of OLS and …

-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …

economic growth and to determine the impact of income inequality on economic growth in the long-run in ten former socialist … objectives the following explanatory variables were used: income inequality (Gini Index), foreign direct investments (FDI … growth, is GDP per capita growth (annual %). The main finding of this paper's investigations is that income inequality has a …