reducing inequality. Educated workers in these countries have a much lower birth rate than uneducated workers. Assuming … incorporating this effect generates multiple stedy-state levels of inequality, suggesting that in some circumstances, temporarily … increasing access to educational opportunities could permanently reduce inequality. Empirical evidence suggests that the …

. Using monthly standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) values, drought characteristics, namely, drought duration, severity …, interval time and minimum SPI values, were determined. Two exponential distributions were used to model drought duration and … model minimum SPI value. Several copulas in the Archimedean and meta-elliptical families were applied to construct four …

This study focuses on testing the relationship between income inequality and growth within U.S. counties, and the … channels through which such effects are observed. The study tests three hypotheses: (1) income inequality has an inverse … relationship with growth; (2) regional growth adjustments are the channels through which the inequality and growth are equilibrated …

Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries during the 1980s and … development. This article uses a measure of income inequality derived from taxation statistics and a recently proposed method for … testing long-run Granger non-causality to examine the key determinants of Australia's inequality for the years 1970–2001. In …

This paper revisits the inequality-growth relationship accounting for sectoral differences and focusing on US counties … depends on regional income inequality and a number of control variables. Spatial econometrics techniques are used to account … inequality for the Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting sector and the Real Estate, Rental and Leasing sector. However …

This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition …. In particular, if the observed wage inequality response to price and technology shocks reflects a short-run response in … observed increases in inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. This conclusion applies …

show that income inequality of reference group of husbands in age-regional cross sections can be a predictor of their wives …