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Inequality of Opportunity, Inequality of Income and Economic Growth / Shekhar Aiyar, Christian Ebeke.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Aiyar, Shekhar.
- Series:
- IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/034
- IMF Working Papers
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (23 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
- Summary:
- We posit that the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is mediated by the level of equality of opportunity, which we identify with intergenerational mobility. In economies characterized by intergenerational rigidities, an increase in income inequality has persistent effects—for example by hindering human capital accumulation— thereby retarding future growth disproportionately. We use several recently developed internationally comparable measures of intergenerational mobility to confirm that the negative impact of income inequality on growth is higher the lower is intergenerational mobility. Our results suggest that omitting intergenerational mobility leads to misspecification, shedding light on why the empirical literature on income inequality and growth has been so inconclusive.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781498301251
- 1498301258
- 9781498301282
- 1498301282
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