wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities but its impact …

quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases … redistribution and lowers institutional quality. The effect of the former is to increase productive investment, and the effect of the … in a panel of countries, the paper finds that inequality has a negative effect on both institutional quality and …

quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases … redistribution and lowers institutional quality. The effect of the former is to increase productive investment, and the effect of the … in a panel of countries, the paper finds that inequality has a negative effect on both institutional quality and …

the Brazilian case, what could explain the tenacity of inequality in the country? To answer this, the paper, grounded in … new institutionalism theory, employed a process-tracing method to explore the causes of the continuity of unequal income …

Corruption increases inequality in the society (Gupta et al, 1998) by reducing economic growth, biasing the tax system … then as democracy grows corruption decreases. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between inequality … will help to establish a more direct link than explaining inequality indirectly through corruption. It follows from the …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large …We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary co- operation and whether this … inequality adversely affects aggregate contributions, and this is on account of high endowment individuals contributing a …