National Income and Its Distribution /

Does the distribution of income within a country become more equal as it grows richer? This paper uses plausibly exogenous variations in trade-weighted world income and international oil price shocks as instruments for within-country variations in countries real GDP per capita to examine this issue...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruckner, Markus
Other Authors: Dabla-Norris, Era, Gradstein, Mark
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/101
Online Access:Full text available on IMF