Similar Search Results

A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? : cross-country and longitudinal evidence

Costa-Font, Joan; Hernandez-Quevedo, Cristina; Sato, Azusa - 2013

The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199440

Financial development and inequality in the global economy

Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2016

We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434439

Inequality undermines democracy and growth

Thorvaldur Gylfason - Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar <30., … - 2019 - Final version 21 January 2019

growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966802

Inequality, structure of production and international trade : the role of credit market imperfection

Beladi, Hamid; Marjit, Sugata; Misra, Suryaprakash - 2017

Credit rationing in the presence of asset inequality affects production and trade pattern in this paper, but not in the conventional way. A Ricardian general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous levels of asset ownership is developed to show that more equal asset distribution may contract...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597233

Explaining inequality between countries : the declining role of political institutions

Hussey, Andrew; Jetter, Michael; McWilliam, Dianne - 2017

countries (representing 85 percent of the world population) from 1960-2012. Since 1988, inequality has marginally decreased …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597855

The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development

Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017

We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588047

Inequality and the environment : the economics of a two-headed hydra

Drupp, Moritz A.; Kornek, Ulrike; Meya, Jasper; Sager, Lutz - 2021

Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse. Neither of these two issues can be fully understood in isolation, and policies aiming at one issue will increasingly have to consider interactions with the other. We synthesize...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694139

Your place in the world relative income and global inequality

Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021

find that Germans systematically underestimate their true place in the world’s income distribution, but that correcting …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507321

Wealth and history : an update

Waldenström, Daniel - 2021

countries. The new findings suggest that wealth-income ratios were lower before World War I than previously claimed, that wealth …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649784

Political economy of climate change adaptation : loss of habitat and rising inequality

Straten, Yasmine van der; Perotti, Enrico; Ploeg, … - 2024

We study the evolution of voter support for climate policies aimed at containing the effect of climate risk, as weather conditions worsens at a time of rising economic inequality. Households differ in age, beliefs and income, and the scale of intervention to preserve habitable land reflects the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014478722