Rent Seeking and Endogenous Income Inequality /

This paper studies the relationship between wealth inequality and occupational choice between rent-seeking and production. With imperfect credit markets and a fixed cost to rent-seeking, only wealthy agents choose to engage in rent-seeking as it enables them to protect their wealth from expropriatio...

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Hovedforfatter: Wade, Paul
Andre forfattere: Dabla-Norris, Era
Format: Tidsskrift
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Serier:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/015
Online adgang:Full text available on IMF