claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition …, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and protectionist measures. The paper investigates the conflicting …

shock; and (b) the domestic relevance of the foreign countries in which the demand shocks originate from. If the foreign … demand shock from a relevant market happens in a female-intensive (male-intensive) sector, the model predicts that the female …

between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and …