This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the … framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects … (OLS) model that has been used in the literature on this subject. Using a FE model we find that inequality has always a …

This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality. Country-specific studies that focused on labor market inequality have shown that, with a few exceptions, wage …

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 …

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 …

according to which (1) rising inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed …, as well as the specific inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly …

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 …

regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

inequality is permanent, the increase in growth appears to be permanent. However, our estimates imply that it would take 13 years …