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This paper provides a cross-country comparison of how income inequality has evolved within countries at different … levels of development. It uses overlapping nonparametric regression, which allows visual comparisons of inequality both …, some new results on inequality across countries are also discovered …
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We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require … used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy first expands rapidly with a large decline in inequality, plateaus … when inequality remains relatively stable, and then decreases rapidly with a large increase in inequality. This novel …
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-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …
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investments lead over time to a progressive reduction in inequality. Finally, the framework we describe enables us to formalize …
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Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …
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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 … research on the base of the Gini-coefficient cannot generate a general relationship between wealth inequality and economic … growth. Moreover, the impact of wealth inequality on economic growth is through the supply of human capital as well as the …
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In this paper education simultaneously affects growth and income inequality. More education does not necessarily … decrease inequality when the latter is assessed by the Lorenz dominance criterion. Increases in education first increase and … then decrease growth as well as income inequality, when measured by the Gini coefficient. There is no clear functional …
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inequality is permanent, the increase in growth appears to be permanent. However, our estimates imply that it would take 13 years …
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modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …
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