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, income distribution influences the stringency of environmental policy and consequently the growth of a country. Individuals … inequality, environmental protection, and growth. …
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This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the … carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with economic growth. We show that the results heavily depend on the …
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This paper examines the link between pollution and income. It shows how income inequality affects environmental policies and therefore pollution. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes that there is an inverted U-shape relation between environmental degradation and income per...
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growth dynamics. We find multiple politico-economic regimes where the pressure for redistribution is highly non …
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This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality increases with growth. The paper argues that the methodologies used in many of the empirical applications, designed to …
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uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It … impact of higher inequality on the aggregate human capital stock, and thus, on growth may be positive. This result rests on …
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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the … existing cross-country empirical evidence on the effects of inequality on growth and the extent to which the poorest in society … benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …
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In this paper we study the impact of the income distribution on innovation through the demand for quality goods. For simplicity, we assume that there are two types of consumers, rich and poor. The income distribution is measured by the population share of the poor and the relative income of the...
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Empirical evidence on the relationship between a country?s wealth inequality and economic growth is ambiguous. This … distribution has for economic growth in a framework combining the Schumpeterian quality improvement model and the neoclassic … economic growth, but a decline in the population share of the poor enhances economic growth. This suggests that empirical …
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