In this paper education simultaneously affects growth and income inequality. More education does not necessarily … then decrease growth as well as income inequality, when measured by the Gini coefficient. There is no clear functional … relationship between growth and measured income inequality. The model identifies regimes of this relationship which depend …

also small relative to the variation in growth in average incomes, implying that the latter accounts for most of the … variation in income growth in the poorest quintiles. These findings hold across most regions and time periods and when … conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the …

We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require …

partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined … income data from the Luxembourg Income Study suggests that there is a negative relationship between growth and income …

This paper reconsiders the political economy approach to growth and distribution according to which (1) rising … taxation; and (3) higher distortionary taxes reduce economic growth. We present a variety of theoretical arguments … real-world element to the basal models. The political economy models of growth and distribution, as well as the specific …

This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more … growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …