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 … disposable income distributions evolved over time. The results indicate that polarization increased in all the considered …

This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more … than 70 countries during the 1960-2005 period. We calculate various polarization indices using existing micro … Database. The results garnered for our preferred sample of countries suggest that income polarization has a negative impact on …

indexes, generalized entropy, Wolfson polarization, etc.). This method also provides a smoothing tool that is able to show the …

polarization in Greater Buenos Aires over the past two decades (1986-2006). The empirical evidence reveals two stages throughout … potential factors which could explain those changes, returns to education surge as the main polarization force in the labor …

of 1995-2017 microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to show that both individual polarization and relative … the aggregate level, the main driver is equally income polarization, whereas the standard measure of inequality, the Gini …

relation with earnings and polarization, and inequality. We show some evidence of polarization in earnings but not with respect …

of capital (or an increase in capital productivity) causes employment and wage polarization. Specifically, further … automation - thereafter inducing monotone increases in skill premia rather than wage polarization. …