inequality from net inequality and allows us to calculate redistributive transfers for a large number of country …-year observations. Our main findings are: 1. More unequal societies tend to redistribute more. 2. Lower net inequality is robustly … correlated with faster and more durable growth, for a given level of redistribution. 3. Redistribution appears generally benign …

An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …

inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital … speaking reflecting inequality) has somewhat interesting effects along the transitional path towards balanced growth. Hereby …

decomposition of poverty and inequality in 2000–2018 using official national household surveys. We find the growth since 2012 …, unlike before, was consistently pro-poor. Moreover, growth and redistribution aligned after 2012 to reduce poverty, whereas … often before 2015 they offset each other's effects. Inequality improved, as the proportions of households with both heads …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

at 7:1 and has been rising continuously ever since. However, the rise in overall income inequality is not (only) about … the past 30 years, the econometric analysis suggests that income inequality has a negative and statistically significant … through which inequality may affect growth. Analysis based on micro data from the Adult Skills Survey (PIAAC) shows that …

In this study, we examine the contributions of growth and redistribution to poverty reduction in Mexico during the …, inequality, and poverty, being careful to avoid spurious correlation arising from data construction. The GMM regression results … show that Mexican states are characterized by income and inequality convergence, that lower levels of inequality tend to …

Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this … timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database, covering a panel of 165 … at the top of the distribution and economic growth. A one standard deviation increase in wealth inequality within …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …

) alternative modes of redistribution in face of inequality increasing tendencies. … case studies rather than cross-country regression analysis; (ii) the phenomenon of increasing inequality; (iii) different …