Economic Growth and Income Inequality

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth? What factors determine the secular level and ...

1. Trends in income and wealth inequality - Pew Research Center

From 1983 to 2016, the share of aggregate wealth going to upper-income families increased from 60% to 79%. Meanwhile, the share held by middle- ...

Inequality is slowing U.S. economic growth: Faster wage growth for ...

EPI estimates that rising inequality has slowed growth in aggregate demand by 2 to 4 percentage points of GDP annually in recent years.

Inequality's drag on aggregate demand: The macroeconomic and ...

By 2018, the rise in income inequality since 1979 was reducing growth in aggregate demand by about 1.5% of GDP. Rising inequality constrains ...

Economic Growth and Income Inequality: Reexamining the Links

, does economic growth result in a more unequal distribution of income, and is it necessary for per capita income to reach a certain minimum level before income.

Rising inequality: A major issue of our time - Brookings Institution

Income and wealth inequality has risen in many countries in recent decades. Rising inequality and related disparities and anxieties have been stoking social ...

Literature review on income inequality and economic growth - PMC

This paper provides a comprehensive literature review of the relationship between income inequality and economic growth.

The Relationship Between Income Inequality and Economic Growth

In countries with relatively high income and inequality due to the increase in the income of the wealthiest population, inequality positively ...

A Low-Growth World Is an Unequal, Unstable World

Long periods of slow economic growth can cause a jump in inequality. But a balanced set of policies can stave off that outcome.

The impact of wealth inequality on economic growth - CEPR

This column examines how the distribution of land ownership shaped Italy's structural transformation after WWII.

Geographic Inequality on the Rise in the U.S.

Strikingly, geographic income inequality continued to climb in recent years even though many measures of overall income and wage inequality have ...

Wealth inequality and economic growth: Evidence from the US and ...

This paper asserts that the accumulation of non-productive assets/luxury goods is an important determinant of wealth inequality.

Inequality – Bridging the Divide - the United Nations

in the last 25 years, meaning average incomes in developing countries are increasing at a faster rate. This can be accredited to · strong economic growth in ...

Trends in Income Inequality and its Impact on Economic Growth

Economics, 63, 379–398. Voitchovsky (2005) "Does the Profile of Income Inequality Matter for Economic Growth?" Journal of. Economic Growth, vol. 10(3), pages ...

Inequality and Growth | NBER

Overall, for poor countries, the escape from poverty is made more difficult because rising per capita income induces more inequality, which retards growth in ...

How does income inequality affects economic growth at different ...

This study aims to uncover the role of inequality in growth to examine and achieve growth from an inequality perspective.

The effects of economic growth on income inequality in the US

Second, changes in inequality are positively affected by US GDP per capita growth and the market return. The income share of the lower 90% group decreases with ...

A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality

The years from the end of World War II into the 1970s were ones of substantial economic growth and broadly shared prosperity. Incomes grew ...

Nexus between inflation, income inequality, and economic growth in ...

The results indicate the presence of a long-run relationship among inflation, income inequality, and economic growth, as confirmed by Johansen's cointegrated ...

Inequality and Economic Growth: The Role of Initial Income

Estimates of the model show that the relationship between inequality and gross domestic product per capita growth is significantly decreasing in countries' ...