@Equal project disseminates findings at the 2024 Nordic Conference for Development Economics

@Equal project disseminates findings at the 2024 Nordic Conference for Development Economics

Mon, 17 June 2024 – Tue, 18 June 2024

Researchers with The impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance – @EQUAL project present their WIDER Working Papers at the 2024 Nordic Conference for Development Economics in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

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Presentations take place over three parallel sessions organized by the project, covering several of the project's studies. 

Parallel 3.1 – @EQUAL 
Chair – Vanesa Jorda Gil 
Laurence Roope: From the Bottom 40 to Inequality Lines: Sharing Prosperity Globally and Domestically 
David Castells-Quintana: Concentration of income and human development: The role of the middle class
Vanesa Jorda Gil: Global income polarization: relative and absolute perspectives

Parallel 4.1 – @EQUAL 
Chair – Carlos Gradín  
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay: Size Matters: Measuring the Effects of Inequality and Growth Shocks
Shakeba Foster: Wage inequality, firm characteristics, and firm wage premia in South Africa 
Carlos Gradín: Spatial inequality in Mozambique

Parallel 5.1 – @EQUAL 
Chair – Rachel Gisselquist 
Ines A.R. Ferreira: Fairness views, norms and preferences for redistribution 
AnnaLena Oppel: Communication matters 
Antonio Diaz Caycedo: Colombia’s Land Reform: Fighting Inequality, fighting Violence? 
Rachel Gisselquist: Dimensions of Inequality: Impacts on growth, governance, and human development
 

This event is a part of The impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance – @EQUAL project.

 

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Mon, 17 June 2024 – Tue, 18 June 2024
Finland
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    Working Paper
    Global income polarization

    This paper presents the first global and regional estimates of polarization and bipolarization spanning the period 1960–2020. The study relies on group data to implement a flexible parametric model to obtain the global income distribution and...

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    Wage inequality, firm characteristics, and firm wage premia in South Africa

    This paper investigates the role of firm characteristics in driving wage inequality and firm wage premia in the South African labour market. The Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (AKM) and Kline, Saggio, and Sølvsten (KSS) regression-based decomposition...

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    Communication matters: sensitivity in fairness evaluations across wealth inequality expressions and levels

    This paper seeks to understand whether the way in which inequality is communicated through measurements influences individuals’ fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality, such...

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    Inequality and human development

    In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential effect associated with the concentration of national income at different parts of the income distribution. To do so, we rely on a large...

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    On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance

    Countering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major development challenge. This is so from an ethical perspective and because greater inequality is perceived to be detrimental to key...

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    Size matters: measuring the effects of inequality and growth shocks

    Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and social scientists. In this paper we use a Bayesian structural vector autoregression approach to estimate the relationship between...

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