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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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show that income inequality of reference group of husbands in age-regional cross sections can be a predictor of their wives …
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The institutional structure of global commodity chains and cross-border production networks has a profound impact on how the benefits of globalized production are distributed. This paper engages with this issue by developing a model that combines the insights of earlier unequal exchange...
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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 …
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A major puzzle in the open economy literature is why some countries have persistently higher real exchange rates than others. Even more puzzling is the fact that countries with high real exchange rates are strong export performers. We solve both puzzles with a model that integrates two central...
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functionals of two income distributions (such as inequality or poverty measures) into shares due to differences in the structure … those of the United States and Mexico, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality is due to underlying …
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between the magnitude of grievances (formulated here as the extent of inequality) and the likelihood of repression. The main … likelihood of repression might decrease. I investigate the relationship between inequality and the likelihood of repression in … generalized additive model with thin-plate splines (GAM-TPS). This technique allows for flexible relationship between inequality …
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