Determinants of Cross-Country Income Inequality: An ‘Augmented’ Kuznets Hypothesis

By Branko Milanovic. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Infrastructure and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2008, methodology): “For our purposes, one key question is to what extent the synthetic indices of infrastructure quantity and quality 16 The same specification is used by Milanovic (2000) and Gradstein, Milanovic and Ying (2001).”
Poverty Reduction and Growth: Virtuous and Vicious Circles (2006, background): “Some empirical evidence suggests that larger governments—measured either by a higher share of workers in the public sector or by a higher level of transfers as a ratio to GDP—tend to be associated with lower inequality (Milanovic 2000).”
Income Inequality: Does Inflation Matter? (2001, unknown): “6 68 Finland 1985 20.2 13,980 22.0 28.7 8.6 69 Hong Kong 1981 48.5 14,014 2.9 7.9 10.3 70 Australia 1982 31.6 14,529 17.1 29.3 9.6 71 Germany 1981 27.8 14,621 25.7 22.3 4.4 72 Sweden 1981 22.9 14,941 32.2 36.2 10.9 73 Canada 1981 32.0 17,681 21.5 24.1 9.7 74 Switzerland 1982 35.5 17,763 14.9 10.4 4.”
Growth Still Is Good for the Poor (2013, unknown): “(2008)), public sector employment (Milanovic (2000)), and social transfers (Milanovic (2000), De Gregorio et. al.”
The Effects of Infrastructure Development on Growth and income (2004, methodology): “On the other hand, the choice of explanatory variables follows the existing empirical literature on the determinants of income inequality (Milanovic, 2000; Chong, 2002).”
Inequality Of Opportunity And Growth (2013, background): “…hand, this literature addresses the causation from growth to inequality, and disputes about the Kuznets (1955) and the “augmented” Kuznets hypothesis (Milanovic, 1994), according to which economic development (and other socioeconomic and political aspects) should eventually reduce income…”
Income Inequality and Inflation in the EU (2012, methodology): “Milanovic (1994) tests the hypothesis according to which government policies can significantly change income distribution and Kuznet holds.”
International Remittances and Income Inequality: An Empirical Investigation (2006, unknown): “See, for example, Ahluwalia (1976); Li et al. (1998); Papanek and Kyn (1986); Sudhir and Kanbur (1993); Milanovic (1996); and Kuznets (1955), among others.”