Inequality is Bad for Growth of the Poor (But Not for That of the Rich)
The paper assesses the impact of overall inequality, as well as inequality among the poor and among the rich, on the growth rates along various percentiles of the income distribution. The analysis uses micro-census data from U.S. states covering t...
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okr-10986-193632021-04-23T14:03:51Z Inequality is Bad for Growth of the Poor (But Not for That of the Rich) van der Weide, Roy Milanovic, Branko AGGREGATE INCOME ANNUAL GROWTH AVERAGE ANNUAL AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE GROWTH RATE AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE INCOME GROWTH AVERAGE INCOMES CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CONFLICT CREDIT CONSTRAINT CREDIT CONSTRAINTS CREDIT MARKET CREDIT MARKET IMPERFECTIONS CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS CROSS-COUNTRY DATA DATA AVAILABILITY DATA QUALITY DATA SETS DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISPOSABLE INCOME DISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS DYNAMIC PANEL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC LITERATURE ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STUDIES EFFECT OF INEQUALITY ON GROWTH EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL RESULTS EMPIRICAL STUDIES EMPIRICAL TEST ERROR TERM FINANCIAL CRISIS FIXED EFFECTS FIXED EFFECTS ESTIMATION FOREIGN AID GINI COEFFICIENT GROSS INCOME GROWTH LITERATURE GROWTH PATTERN GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES GROWTH REGRESSION GROWTH REGRESSIONS GROWTH SPELLS GROWTH THEORIES GROWTH-INEQUALITY RELATIONSHIP HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNITIES HIGH INCOME COUNTRIES HIGH INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION INCOME INCOME DATA INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME GROWTH INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME REDISTRIBUTION INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY LEVELS INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY MEASURES INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY INEQUALITY-GROWTH RELATIONSHIP INTERVENTIONS LABOR FORCE LEVELS OF INEQUALITY LOW INCOME LOW INEQUALITY MACROECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS MACROECONOMICS MARGINAL PROPENSITY MARGINAL TAX MARGINAL TAX RATE MARKET INCOME MEASURE OF INEQUALITY MEASURES OF INEQUALITY MEASURING INCOME INEQUALITY MEDIAN INCOME MEDIAN VOTER MEDIAN VOTER HYPOTHESIS MEMBER COUNTRIES MICRO DATA MIDDLE CLASS NEGATIVE COEFFICIENT NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE EFFECT NEGATIVE IMPACT NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP NEGATIVE SIGN NEW GROWTH THEORIES OVERALL INEQUALITY PENSIONS PER CAPITA GROWTH PER CAPITA GROWTH RATE PER CAPITA INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES POINT DECLINE POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL SCIENCE POOR GROWTH POSITIVE EFFECT POSITIVE IMPACT POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC CHOICE PUBLIC ECONOMICS PUBLIC GOODS RATE OF GROWTH REAL GROWTH REAL INCOME REAL INCOMES REDISTRIBUTIVE POLICIES REGIONAL DUMMIES REGRESSION DIAGNOSTICS RESIDUAL INEQUALITY RICH COUNTRIES RISING INEQUALITY SAVINGS SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE SOCIAL SECURITY STANDARD DEVIATION TAXATION TOTAL INEQUALITY UNEMPLOYMENT UNEQUAL SOCIETIES WAGES WAR WORLD INCOME INEQUALITY The paper assesses the impact of overall inequality, as well as inequality among the poor and among the rich, on the growth rates along various percentiles of the income distribution. The analysis uses micro-census data from U.S. states covering the period from 1960 to 2010. The paper finds evidence that high levels of inequality reduce the income growth of the poor and, if anything, help the growth of the rich. When inequality is deconstructed into bottom and top inequality, the analysis finds that it is mostly top inequality that is holding back growth at the bottom. 2014-08-15T16:17:29Z 2014-08-15T16:17:29Z 2014-07 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/07/19756057/inequality-bad-growth-poor-not-rich http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19363 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6963 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |
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AGGREGATE INCOME ANNUAL GROWTH AVERAGE ANNUAL AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE GROWTH RATE AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE INCOME GROWTH AVERAGE INCOMES CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CONFLICT CREDIT CONSTRAINT CREDIT CONSTRAINTS CREDIT MARKET CREDIT MARKET IMPERFECTIONS CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS CROSS-COUNTRY DATA DATA AVAILABILITY DATA QUALITY DATA SETS DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISPOSABLE INCOME DISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS DYNAMIC PANEL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC LITERATURE ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STUDIES EFFECT OF INEQUALITY ON GROWTH EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL RESULTS EMPIRICAL STUDIES EMPIRICAL TEST ERROR TERM FINANCIAL CRISIS FIXED EFFECTS FIXED EFFECTS ESTIMATION FOREIGN AID GINI COEFFICIENT GROSS INCOME GROWTH LITERATURE GROWTH PATTERN GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES GROWTH REGRESSION GROWTH REGRESSIONS GROWTH SPELLS GROWTH THEORIES GROWTH-INEQUALITY RELATIONSHIP HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNITIES HIGH INCOME COUNTRIES HIGH INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION INCOME INCOME DATA INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME GROWTH INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME REDISTRIBUTION INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY LEVELS INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY MEASURES INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY INEQUALITY-GROWTH RELATIONSHIP INTERVENTIONS LABOR FORCE LEVELS OF INEQUALITY LOW INCOME LOW INEQUALITY MACROECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS MACROECONOMICS MARGINAL PROPENSITY MARGINAL TAX MARGINAL TAX RATE MARKET INCOME MEASURE OF INEQUALITY MEASURES OF INEQUALITY MEASURING INCOME INEQUALITY MEDIAN INCOME MEDIAN VOTER MEDIAN VOTER HYPOTHESIS MEMBER COUNTRIES MICRO DATA MIDDLE CLASS NEGATIVE COEFFICIENT NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE EFFECT NEGATIVE IMPACT NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP NEGATIVE SIGN NEW GROWTH THEORIES OVERALL INEQUALITY PENSIONS PER CAPITA GROWTH PER CAPITA GROWTH RATE PER CAPITA INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES POINT DECLINE POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL SCIENCE POOR GROWTH POSITIVE EFFECT POSITIVE IMPACT POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC CHOICE PUBLIC ECONOMICS PUBLIC GOODS RATE OF GROWTH REAL GROWTH REAL INCOME REAL INCOMES REDISTRIBUTIVE POLICIES REGIONAL DUMMIES REGRESSION DIAGNOSTICS RESIDUAL INEQUALITY RICH COUNTRIES RISING INEQUALITY SAVINGS SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE SOCIAL SECURITY STANDARD DEVIATION TAXATION TOTAL INEQUALITY UNEMPLOYMENT UNEQUAL SOCIETIES WAGES WAR WORLD INCOME INEQUALITY |
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AGGREGATE INCOME ANNUAL GROWTH AVERAGE ANNUAL AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE GROWTH RATE AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE INCOME GROWTH AVERAGE INCOMES CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CONFLICT CREDIT CONSTRAINT CREDIT CONSTRAINTS CREDIT MARKET CREDIT MARKET IMPERFECTIONS CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS CROSS-COUNTRY DATA DATA AVAILABILITY DATA QUALITY DATA SETS DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISPOSABLE INCOME DISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS DYNAMIC PANEL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC LITERATURE ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STUDIES EFFECT OF INEQUALITY ON GROWTH EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL RESULTS EMPIRICAL STUDIES EMPIRICAL TEST ERROR TERM FINANCIAL CRISIS FIXED EFFECTS FIXED EFFECTS ESTIMATION FOREIGN AID GINI COEFFICIENT GROSS INCOME GROWTH LITERATURE GROWTH PATTERN GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES GROWTH REGRESSION GROWTH REGRESSIONS GROWTH SPELLS GROWTH THEORIES GROWTH-INEQUALITY RELATIONSHIP HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNITIES HIGH INCOME COUNTRIES HIGH INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION INCOME INCOME DATA INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME GROWTH INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME REDISTRIBUTION INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY LEVELS INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY MEASURES INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY INEQUALITY-GROWTH RELATIONSHIP INTERVENTIONS LABOR FORCE LEVELS OF INEQUALITY LOW INCOME LOW INEQUALITY MACROECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS MACROECONOMICS MARGINAL PROPENSITY MARGINAL TAX MARGINAL TAX RATE MARKET INCOME MEASURE OF INEQUALITY MEASURES OF INEQUALITY MEASURING INCOME INEQUALITY MEDIAN INCOME MEDIAN VOTER MEDIAN VOTER HYPOTHESIS MEMBER COUNTRIES MICRO DATA MIDDLE CLASS NEGATIVE COEFFICIENT NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE EFFECT NEGATIVE IMPACT NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP NEGATIVE SIGN NEW GROWTH THEORIES OVERALL INEQUALITY PENSIONS PER CAPITA GROWTH PER CAPITA GROWTH RATE PER CAPITA INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES POINT DECLINE POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL SCIENCE POOR GROWTH POSITIVE EFFECT POSITIVE IMPACT POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC CHOICE PUBLIC ECONOMICS PUBLIC GOODS RATE OF GROWTH REAL GROWTH REAL INCOME REAL INCOMES REDISTRIBUTIVE POLICIES REGIONAL DUMMIES REGRESSION DIAGNOSTICS RESIDUAL INEQUALITY RICH COUNTRIES RISING INEQUALITY SAVINGS SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE SOCIAL SECURITY STANDARD DEVIATION TAXATION TOTAL INEQUALITY UNEMPLOYMENT UNEQUAL SOCIETIES WAGES WAR WORLD INCOME INEQUALITY van der Weide, Roy Milanovic, Branko Inequality is Bad for Growth of the Poor (But Not for That of the Rich) |
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Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6963 |
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The paper assesses the impact of overall
inequality, as well as inequality among the poor and among
the rich, on the growth rates along various percentiles of
the income distribution. The analysis uses micro-census
data from U.S. states covering the period from 1960 to 2010.
The paper finds evidence that high levels of inequality
reduce the income growth of the poor and, if anything, help
the growth of the rich. When inequality is deconstructed
into bottom and top inequality, the analysis finds that it
is mostly top inequality that is holding back growth at the bottom. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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van der Weide, Roy Milanovic, Branko |
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van der Weide, Roy Milanovic, Branko |
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van der Weide, Roy |
title |
Inequality is Bad for Growth of the Poor (But Not for That of the Rich) |
title_short |
Inequality is Bad for Growth of the Poor (But Not for That of the Rich) |
title_full |
Inequality is Bad for Growth of the Poor (But Not for That of the Rich) |
title_fullStr |
Inequality is Bad for Growth of the Poor (But Not for That of the Rich) |
title_full_unstemmed |
Inequality is Bad for Growth of the Poor (But Not for That of the Rich) |
title_sort |
inequality is bad for growth of the poor (but not for that of the rich) |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/07/19756057/inequality-bad-growth-poor-not-rich http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19363 |
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