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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 …th and 75th percentiles enhances regional growth. This result no longer holds when we take into account changes in …
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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 …th and 75th percentiles enhances regional growth. This result no longer holds when we take into account changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278526
This paper discusses long-term trends in the macroeconomic growth performance and in income distribution in Europe and … the U.S. We review insights from the recent macroeconomic literature on inequality and growth and use these insights to … shed light on the growth and inequality trends. …
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Over the last two decades there has been a growing interest in determining the impact of inequality on growth. The … structure of the data, the sample coverage, the type of distribution, the definition of income, and the estimation technique …. These results suggest that there is not one but several underlying effects of inequality on growth, which are likely to …
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distribution has a stronger negative effect on growth than inequality in income distribution may indicate that the channels through …The theme of the relationship between inequality and economic growth has gained considerable attention among economists … over the last two decades. In this paper, we analyse the effect of inequality on growth, whose related literature has been …
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his paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national …, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth distribution among Chinese households. Our analysis indicates that the wealth … distribution in China as a whole became much more unequal in 2002 than it was in 1995. The housing reform, in which public …
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This paper summarizes the main results on changes in poverty and inequality in Argentina and the world in the last three decades, and discusses the progresses made by the Economics field in that period toward a better understanding of the distributional issues.
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increased in most countries fueled by economic growth and despite unequalizing distributional changes. …
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increased in most countries fueled by economic growth and despite unequalizing distributional changes. …
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This paper studies the correlation between inequality, measured by the Gini coefficent of incomes, and the growth rate … of per capita GDP in a panel of countries between the late 1950s and late 1990s. Inequality Granger causes growth with a … negative coefficient, while growth Granger causes inequality with a positive sign. Quantitatively, the former effect appears …
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