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Dominicis, Laura de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, … - 2006

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and empirical approaches have produced ambiguous results on sign and size of this relationship. Although there is a considerable part of the literature that considers inequality...

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Increasing Marginal Tendency to Tax Avoidance, Inequality and Economic Growth

Qi, Zixiang; Wang, Bicong; Wang, Yaxin; Lv, Yongqiang - 2022

According to increasing marginal tendency to tax avoidance, we establish a dynamic theoretical model, which illustrates an inverted U-curve relationship between economic growth and income inequality in the long run. This finding stands in sharp contrast to the Kuznets curve—whereby inequality...

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Directed Technological Change & Cross-Country Income Differences : A Quantitative Analysis

Jerzmanowski, Michal - 2019

and their productivity. Recent work suggests that these calculations should treat workers of different skill levels as … imperfect substitutes. However, under this approach, it has been challenging to compute skill-specific productivity levels for a … data set on labor force composition to construct measures of productivity for workers in three distinct skill categories …

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Trade and Inequality : The Effects of International Unbundling of Production

Basco, Sergi - 2019

known as international unbundling of production. We consider a world economy where countries only differ in their … productivity and consume final good varieties from all country origins. Each variety is produced using a bundle of intermediate … this change in inequality is U-shaped in the productivity of the country. The reason is that high-productivity countries …

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Chapter 10 Explaining cross-country income differences

McGrattan, Ellen R.; Schmitz, James A. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 1, part A, (pp. 669-737). 1999

This chapter reviews the literature that tries to explain the disparity and variation of GDP per worker and GDP per capita across countries and across time. There are many potential explanations for the different patterns of development across countries, including differences in luck, raw...

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Modeling Trade and Income Distribution in Six Developing Countries A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis up to the Year 2050

Britz, Wolfgang - 2020

This paper presents an empirical exercise, aimed at investigating the implications on poverty and income distribution of a reference scenario (SSP2) of economic development. It does so by coupling a dynamic general equilibrium model of the global economy, specifically designed to capture...

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Inequality and Economic Growth : A Method-Dependent Relationship Driven by the Measure of Income Inequality?

Juuti, Toni - 2020

investigation using the World Income Inequality Database maintained by UNU-WIDER and considering different measures of inequality …

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Growth-Equity Trade-Offs in Structural Reforms

Ostry, Jonathan D. - 2018

Do structural reforms that aim to boost potential output also change the distribution of income? We shed light on this question by looking at the broad patterns in the cross-country data covering advanced, emerging-market, and low-income countries. Our main finding is that there is indeed...

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Remittances and Inequality : A Dynamic Migration Model

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2021

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our model is that we take into account the impact of migration...

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Redistribución, Desigualdad Y Crecimiento (Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth)

Ostry, Jonathan D.; Berg, Andrew; Tsangarides, … - 2014

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo emplea un conjunto de datos reciente que distingue entre desigualdad neta y de mercado, y permite calcular las transferencias redistributivas anuales de un gran número de países. Las principales conclusiones son: 1. Sociedades más desiguales tienden a...

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