model education simultaneously affects growth and income inequality. More human capital may increase or decrease growth but …This paper offers a supply-side explanation of the variation in long-run growth and inequality across countries. In the … higher (within-country) inequality is associated with lower growth in rich countries, even when controlling for initial …

Index of refraction is found to be a good measure of economic inequality within the Lorenz curve framework. It has …. While an index value of less than 1.00 represents an ‘anomalous refraction' in optics, such a condition of inequality …

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 …

inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly simplistic and inadequate with respect …This paper reconsiders the political economy approach to growth and distribution according to which (1) rising … inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary …

We analyze the interaction between human capital and growth in Russia, where there are substantial human capital … reserves but an education system seriously out of sync with the world economy. We define a rule for the timing of educational … inequality. We demonstrate that if restructuring is not implemented very early in the transition process, then it is likely to be …

presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …