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Left-behind vs. unequal places : interpersonal inequality, economic decline, and the rise of populism in the US and Europe

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Terrero-Dávila, Javier; Lee, Neil - 2023

interpersonal inequality, and the rise of far-right populism in Europe and in the US. The analysis -conducted at small region level … for Europe and county level for the US- shows that there are both similarities and differences in the factors connected to … minorities shunned populism. In Europe, the most significant factor behind the rise of far-right populism is economic decline …

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Intertemporal Pro-Poorness

Bresson, Florent - 2015

A long-lasting scientific and policy debate queries the impact of growth on distribution. A specific branch of the micro-oriented literature, known as 'pro-poor growth', seeks in particular to understand the impact of growth on poverty. Much of that literature supposes that the distributional...

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Richer or more numerous or both? : the role of population and economic growth for top income shares

Krolage, Carla; Peichl, Andreas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2018

When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is important. This paper presents three alternative measures of top income shares that more explicitly account for population and income growth than the standard measure. We apply these...

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Chapter 13 Income distribution and development

Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 791-841). 2000

This paper is a review of the post-war literature on income distribution and development. It argues that the literature has cycled from one consensus to another, responding to emerging policy issues and new analysis. On the basis of the review, the paper identifies five areas that will command...

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Inequality and Development Across and within Countries

Frazer, Garth - 2006

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of how income inequality has evolved within countries at different levels of development. It uses overlapping nonparametric regression, which allows visual comparisons of inequality both within and across countries. As a result, the methodology...

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Who got what, then and now? : a fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project

Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This version: May 8, 2015

Using newly comprehensive data and tools from the Global Consumption and Income Project or CGIP, covering most of the world and five decades, we present a portrait of the changing global distribution of consumption and income and discuss its implications for our understanding of inequality,...

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Status aspirations, wealth inequality, and economic growth

Stark, Oded - 2005

This paper argues that an increase in the inequality of wealth prompts a stronger quest for status that in turn fosters the accumulation of wealth. It proposes a measure for an individual’s want of social status. For a given level of a population’s wealth, the corresponding aggregate measure...

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Growth and income redistribution components of changes in poverty : a decomposition analysis for Ireland, 1987 - 2005

Are, Wasiu Adekunle - 2012

This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in Ireland from 1987-2005, using the Shapley value decomposition approach. The analysis used the household disposable income data from the Household Budget Survey to calculate...

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Inequality of opportunity and economic growth : a cross-country analysis

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lakner, Christoph; Ana Lugo, … - 2014

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to economic progress. We construct two new metadata...

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Income inequality, capitalism and ethno-linguistic fractionalization

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2015 - Version 24 December 2014

We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our results suggest that there is no robust...

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