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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy

Vindigni, Andrea - 2024

A model of endogenous growth is presented, based on productive public expenditures, and featuring some degree of income inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital taxation that relies, both on voting and on "influence...

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The economics of inclusion : building an argument for a shared society

Valenti, Michael A.; Giovannoni, Olivier - 2013

institutions on development, the costs of fractionalization, and research on the policies of social inclusion around the world …. -- shared societies ; economic inclusion ; institutions ; economic growth ; income distribution …

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Explaining inequality between countries : the declining role of political institutions

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

Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, "humanly devised" political institutions … inequality explainable by differences in political institutions, we decompose annual cross-country Gini coefficients for 95 … (from a Gini of 0.525 to 0.521) but the portion that cannot be explained by political institutions has increased …

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Inequality and Growth : The Neglected Time Dimension

Halter, Daniel - 2012

The empirical literature on the relationship between inequality and growth offers a contradictory assessment: Estimators based on time-series variation indicate a positive link while estimators (also) exploiting the cross-sectional variation suggest a negative relationship. The present paper (i)...

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Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality

Boudreaux, Christopher John; Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, … - 2021

entrepreneurs as well as societal eudaimonic equality. The ex ante conditions for equality of well-being entail institutions that …

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Income inequality, economic growth, and the effect of redistribution

Gründler, Klaus; Scheuermeyer, Philipp - 2015

Evidence from a current panel of harmonized worldwide data highlights a robust negative effect of income inequality on economic growth that we trace back to its transmission channels. Less equal societies tend to have less educated populations and higher fertility rates, but not necessarily...

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Globalization and Inequality among Nations

Joyce, Joseph P. - 2018

, which has focused on the role of institutions in fostering development. Institutions primarily reflect domestic conditions …

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Inequality of Opportunity, Inequality of Income and Economic Growth

Aiyar, Shekhar S. - 2019

We posit that the relationship between income inequality and economic growth ismediated by the level of equality of opportunity, which we identify with intergenerationalmobility. In economies characterized by intergenerational rigidities, an increase in incomeinequality has persistent...

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How a Good Governance of Institutions Can Reduce Poverty and Inequality in Society for Supporting a Sustainable Economic Development?

Coccia, Mario - 2021

factors of nations with different level of development. Central findings suggest that a good governance of institutions …

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Inequality and economic growth

Kefi, Mohamed Karim; Zouhaier, Hadhek - 2012

. -- political institutions ; political instability ; corruption ; investment ; economic growth ; dynamic panel …

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