Homogeneous middles vs. heterogeneous tails, and the end of the ‘Inverted-U’: the share of the rich is what it's all about

By J. Palma. 2011

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Is It All About the Tails? The Palma Measure of Income Inequality (2013, unknown): “…Bank World Development Indicators dataset that includes observations for 135 countries with information on Gini coefficients and income shares, Palma (2011) established the claim that there are two opposite forces at work on distributions: one ‘centrifugal’, leading to an increased diversity…”
Financialization and Economic Development: A Debate on the Social Efficiency of Modern Finance (2018, background): “In the USA, arguably the most financialized economy in the world, the result of this was extreme income polarization, unseen after World War II (Palma, 2011; Piketty, 2014).”
Economic complexity, human capital and income inequality: a cross-country analysis (2019, background): “Findings remain inconclusive, with some papers providing empirical support for the Kuznets hypothesis (Ahluwalia 1976; Barro 2008), others finding support for only the downward sloping part of the curve (Perotti 1996; Galbraith 2007; Palma 2011), and still others refuting any systematic relationship”