A new approach to financial integration and market income inequality

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 134-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Nkwoma Inekwe ◽  
Yi Jin ◽  
Maria Rebecca Valenzuela

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (29) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Aghion ◽  
Reda Cherif ◽  
Fuad Hasanov

We show empirical evidence that there may not be a tradeoff between market income inequality and high sustained growth, which is key for poverty alleviation. We argue that the economies that achieved high sustained growth and low market income inequality are characterized by dynamism—a drive toward sophisticated export industries, innovation, and creative destruction and a high level of competition. What a country produces and how much it competes domestically and internationally are important for achieving fair and inclusive markets. We explore policy options to steer industrial and market structures toward providing growth opportunities for both workers and firms.





1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo Dagum


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwang-Yeong Shin

Abstract This paper attempts to provide a new approach to social inequality, focusing on income and wealth inequality and the relationship between income inequality and wealth inequality. With an analysis of the data linking survey data with administrative data in South Korea, this paper reports that wealth, employment status, family size, and education are significant contributors to income inequality. However, income and loans are the two most significant factors contributing to wealth inequality. Income derived from economic activity and loans based on the leverage in the financial market have exacerbated wealth inequality as higher income groups tend to utilize more loans in the financialized economy, widening the gap between the rich and the poor. Wealth inequality has different dynamics from income inequality, mediated through leverage in South Korea.



2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (224) ◽  
pp. 129-129
Author(s):  
E Editorial

Some terminological inaccuracies have been identified in the article ?Income inequality in transition economies: a comparative analysis of Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia? by Jelena Zarkovic Rakic, Gorana Krstic, Nermin Oruc and Will Bartlett which appeared in Economic Annals, 2019, LXIV(223): 39-60. https:// doi.org/10.2298/EKA1923039Z. On pp. 43-45 of the article, the term ?market income? should read ?post-tax income? and the term ?tax and benefit? on p. 44- 45 should read ?benefit?. The Legend for Figure 1 on p 44 ?Redistributive effects of social transfers? in place of ?Redistributive effects reducing market inequality?. The Note should read ?? the post-tax Gini coefficient for total equivalised income before social transfers (including pensions) [ilc_di12b] ?in place of ?...the marketgenerated Gini coefficient for total equivalised income?. The authors are grateful to Nikola Altiparmakov for bringing their attention to these details.<br><br><font color="red"><b> Link to the corrected article <u><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/EKA1923039Z">10.2298/EKA1923039Z</a></b></u>



2020 ◽  
Vol 240 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-415
Author(s):  
Philipp Süß

AbstractEconomic theory predicts a positive effect of an increase in income inequality on the prevalence of crime, but the international empirical evidence is mixed. For Germany, research on this topic is virtually non-existent. Therefore, I used fixed effect regressions to estimate the effect of a market income inequality proxy on property damages, thefts from motor vehicles, domestic burglaries and assaults in Germany. The models without spatial lags suggest economically small to moderate own-district elasticities between 0.13 and 0.95. The models with spatial lags generally show insignificant own-district estimates, but significant spatial spillovers.



Author(s):  
Tetsuo Fukawa ◽  
Takashi Oshio

This article is an overview of income inequality trends during the 1980s and 1990s and a discussion of their challenges to redistribution policies in Japan. The key results are summarized as follows. First, a widening disparity in market income for the working-age population has been driving rising income inequality in society as a whole, while population aging has added to the uptrend. Second, wide income inequality for the aged population reflects high rates of co-residency and labor force participation among the elderly. This unique feature to the Japanese elderly explains the fact that population aging has led to a rise in overall inequality measures. Third, the current scheme of redistribution policies is less effective for reducing income inequality compared to other countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries (OECD), leaving distribution of disposable income relatively uneven in Japan.



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