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Agriculture and Non-Agriculture Growth, Inflation and Income Inequality in Developed and Developing Countries
Siami-Namini, Sima - 2019
The aim of this article is to examine how agriculture and non-agriculture growth and inflation affect income inequality … inequality and inflation rate in a large sample of data collected for developed and developing countries. The Hodrick …-Prescott (HP) filter is used to separate the cyclical component from the trend component of inflation rate and agriculture and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860411
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Inflation and Income Inequality in Developed and Developing Countries
Siami-Namini, Sima - 2019
The main objective of this article is to investigate both linear and nonlinear effects of inflation on income … between inflation and income inequality using the Toda-Yamamoto (1995) procedure and a vector error correction model (VECM …) approach. The existence of a nonlinear relationship between inflation and income inequality is confirmed implying as inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889689
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The Impacts of Sector Growth and Monetary Policy on Income Inequality in Developing Countries
Siami-Namini, Sima - 2017
in turn influences the inflation and real output in the countries. While inflation is a major variable to affect the … purchasing power of low-income people, we examine the existence of linear and nonlinear linkages between inflation as a proxy of … growth, and inflation, we find that sector growth and inflation affect income inequality in the long-run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944898
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Economic growth, financial development, and income inequality
Park, Donghyun; Shin, Kwanho - 2015
The central objective of our paper is to empirically examine the relationship between financial development and income inequality. Theoretically, there are grounds for both a positive and negative relationship between the two variables. Our main finding is that financial development contributes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305273
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Income inequality and health : evidence from developed and developing countries
Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer countries than for health in poorer countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425987
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Income inequality and health : evidence from developed and developing countries
Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer countries than for health in poorer countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344097
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Income inequality and health : evidence from developed and developing countries
Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015
We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer countries than for health in poorer countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478521
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Income Distribution and Structural Transformation : Empirical Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries
Dastidar, Ananya - 2012
The process of structural transformation forms the very basis of economic growth and development. This paper analyses the implications of alternate patterns of structural change for changes in the overall distribution of income within an economy. An empirical analysis is carried out based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109242
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Growth miracles and failures in a Markov switching classification model of growth
Kerekes, Monika - 2009
Acknowledging the fact that the growth experience of countries is seldom well described by the average growth rate, this paper aims at identifying countries that are similar in terms of their growth process, thus emphasizing the dynamics of growth rates. To that end, the growth experience of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876023
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Structural development accounting
Gancia, Gino Alessandro; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, … - 2011
, costly adoption and spillovers from the world technology frontier. Despite its parsimonious parametrization, our empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739171