We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly … accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set … inequality enhances growth by stimulating commuting incentives. …

conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the … 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 …

This paper examines the long-term relationship between economic growth and inequality in the UK using an endogenous … growth model with heterogeneous agents. The model links entrepreneurial incentives to individual wealth, showing how wealth … distribution endogenously influences growth. Estimation via Indirect Inference confirms its ability to replicate UK data from 1870 …

What accounts for the growth of US top income inequality? This paper proposes a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis … hierarchical rank within modeled firms. I find that this model is able to reproduce four intercorrelated US trends: (1) the growth … of the top 1% income share; (2) the growth of the CEO pay ratio; (3) the growth of the dividends share of national income …

(proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using most recent data and investigating a … long time period (1960-2000), we update the results of previous studies on education gaps on growth and extend the analysis … growth. The combined 'costs' of education and employment gaps in Middle East and North Africa and South Asia amount …

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …