The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined … inequality in rich countries. It is argued that using some unadjusted inequality measures in growth regressions may yield …

We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require … used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy first expands rapidly with a large decline in inequality, plateaus … when inequality remains relatively stable, and then decreases rapidly with a large increase in inequality. This novel …

equal distribution of education contributes significantly to reducing income inequality. Educational expansion is a major … stability contribute to reducing income inequality, while public spending on education helps to reduce educational inequality … factor in reducing educational inequality and thus income inequality. Public policies that improve social benefits and price …

years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example …, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly dependent on knowledge and technology, while the economic costs of … transform into rising income inequality, the ability of governments to cushion this impact may be limited, as rising trade …

A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is …, misspecifies the relationship between education and the stock of human capital. Based on human capital theory, the specification of … human capital should be extended to allow for decreasing returns to education and for differences in the quality of a year …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

We study the relationship between per-capita income and income inequality with a heterogeneous panel co …-51 years and consider measures for both pre-tax and post-tax income inequality; second, we take into account country …-tax income inequality,but no such relationship for post-tax income inequality. Moreover, we find estimates on the country level …

When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … income growth than the standard measure. We apply these measures to long-term income data from the United States and find … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …

growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are … fairly robust to various model specifications and estimation techniques. -- economic growth ; polarization ; inequality …This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more …