the consumption of groups of individuals that share similar time-invariant characteristics, consistent with the pseudo-panel … methodology. When the panel data are available, we track the consumption of each individual in order to generate the non …

Income inequality and income distribution have always represented a foremost topic with important economic, political … the underlying causes of the persistent income inequality from the recent decades performing the analysis from the …

negative correlation between social capital and inequality. This chapter provides some empirical findings on Italy that confirm …

I review the literature on the effects of inequality on growth and development in the developing world. Two stylized … facts emerge from empirical studies: inequality is more likely to harm growth in countries at low levels of income (below … about $3200 per capita in 2000 dollars); and it is at high levels of inequality (at or above a Gini coefficient of .45) that …

The empirical literature on the relationship between inequality and growth offers a contradictory assessment …-based methods are prone to reflect the mostly positive shortor medium-run implications of inequality while the level … overall impact of inequality in the long run. …

better than income inequality when both are treated as endogenous. To do so, we identify instruments for ethnic … fractionalization and income inequality based on historical experience. Using instrumental variables estimation, we find that ethnic … fractionalization explains the level of income both when income inequality is included as a control in the estimation and when it is not …

capital falls in the diversified regime. Also, there exists constant level of between group income inequality in the imitation …-only and innovation-only regimes. However, wage and income inequality between skilled and unskilled human capital rises as an … economy bridges its gap from the world technology frontier. There exists constant level of income inequality within skilled …