In this paper, we revisit the inequality-growth relationship using an enhanced panel data set with improved inequality …, similar to Forbes we find a significant positive association between inequality and subsequent economic growth in the full … relationship between inequality and growth emerges due to the particular timing of inequality and growth dynamics in transition …

income inequality and the current account deficit and a consolidation of the government budget lead to a decrease in the …. Sustainable growth requires a decrease in income inequality, an improvement in the external position, and a relaxation of the …

We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel … initial phase in which no social class invests in higher education of their children such that inequality is driven by … partially crowds out bequests and thereby reduces income inequality and inheritance flows in the short run. The better educated …

Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade … Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage inequality has been falling. Since most trade models suggest that output … prices can affect factor prices, this paper explores the relationship between output prices and wage inequality. The rise of …

The evidence on growing inequality in OECD countries has raised an important debate over its main drivers, pointing out …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

financialisation on the worker-consumer nexus are selected and tested: 1) the social inequality thesis, 2) the debt-income compensation …