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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1. Verfasser: Wade, Paul
Weitere Verfasser: Dabla-Norris, Era
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/015
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF