Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161516 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2016/133
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper re-examines the determinants and consequences of redistribution in light of improved data and methods relative to earlier literature. In particular, we use the latest version of the UNU-WIDER' Income Inequality Database to have the best available estimates of both pre- and post-redistribution inequality for the largest set of countries and periods. We also tackle head-on problems of related to model specification that risks generating large biases in estimates because of mechanical associations between variables. The paper also shows how earlier results on the determinants of redistribution and the impacts of redistribution on growth can be misleading.
Subjects: 
cross-country analysis
growth
inequality
redistribution
JEL: 
H11
O11
O47
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-177-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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