Inequality
By: Edward L. Glaeser.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11511; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11511.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Equality.; Income distribution.
Description: "This paper reviews five striking facts about inequality across countries.  As Kuznets (1955) famouslyfirst documented, inequality first rises and then falls with income.  More unequal societies are muchless likely to have democracies or governments that respect property rights.  Unequal societies haveless redistribution, and we have little idea whether this relationship is caused by redistributionreducing inequality or inequality reducing redistribution.  Inequality and ethnic heterogeneity arehighly correlated, either because of differences in educational heritages across ethnicities or becauseethnic heterogeneity reduces redistribution.  Finally, there is much more inequality and lessredistribution in the U.S.  than in most other developed nations"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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