Existing studies on the impact of migration on income inequality at sending communities suffer from severe methodology … defects and data limitations. This paper analyzes the impact of rural-to-urban migration on inequality using a newly … is the first paper that examines the dynamic aspects of migration and income inequality employing a dynamic panel data …

inequality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In carrying out the study, 34 SSA countries for which relevant data are available …-income inequality exploration. A set of dynamic panel-data models was estimated using system Generalized Method of Moments. It was found … an intensifying income-inequality aggravating effects in countries with relatively wider income gap. It is, thus …

This paper presents tests and estimates of the human capital model of income inequality using synthetic cohort data for … Thailand: 1992–2011. The model focuses on four primary determinants of income inequality: mean per capita income levels, the … are important sources of income inequality in Thailand, with relative impacts that differ across demographic groups and …

inequality and economic growth, implying the conclusion that inequality reducing policies will foster economic growth. The … likely to suffer from a severe weak instrument problem in the inequality-growth setting because lagged differences of … inequality have practically no explanatory power for current inequality levels. Thus, it is biased in the direction of OLS and …

inequality and economic growth, implying the conclusion that inequality reducing policies will foster economic growth. The … likely to suffer from a severe weak instrument problem in the inequality-growth setting because lagged differences of … inequality have practically no explanatory power for current inequality levels. Thus, it is biased in the direction of OLS and …

There is a long-held belief that inequality is a major determinant of violent crime, particularly homicides. Some … inequality. This study addresses the issue of measurement error in inequality by using the relationship between migration and … inequality. Using rainfall shocks and changes in transport costs as exogenous sources of out-migration from rural areas in Brazil …

-curve empirical framework to investigate how financial development, globalisation and technology affect income inequality. Our … exert opposite effects in different countries. Globalisation is associated to increasing inequality in most advanced … economies are mixed, technology and financial development lead to increasing inequality for most emerging economies. Hence …

Following Galor and Zeira (1993), we study the effect of the world interest rate on inequality and growth for the … Galor and Zeira model: 1) a reduction of the world interest rates increases inequality in rich countries and decreases … inequality in poor countries; 2) inequality has a negative (and significant) effect on hu- man capital accumulation in rich …

financial development reduces income inequality, the effects on hunger are not so robust. Although microfinance has considerable …