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2014-12Type
- Working Paper
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Abstract
We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjust ed economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our results suggest that ther e is no robust relations hip between economic freedom and income inequality. In add ition, we analyze the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market processes and the income distributi on after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that have a high degree of fractionalization have less income redistribution, while capitalist countries that have a low degr ee of fractionalization have more income distribution. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-010345377Publication status
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KOF Working PapersVolume
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KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH ZurichSubject
Economic freedom; Income inequality; Ethno-linguistic fractionalization; SOCIAL INEQUALITY (ETHICS); WIRTSCHAFTLICHE ASPEKTE + FINANZIELLE ASPEKTE (ALLGEMEIN); INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS (POINT OF VIEW); FREIHEIT (PHILOSOPHIE); ECONOMIC ASPECTS + FINANCIAL ASPECTS (GENERAL); SOZIALE UNGLEICHHEIT (ETHIK); KAPITALISMUS (WIRTSCHAFTSSYSTEME); INCOME (ECONOMICS); Redistribution; EINKOMMEN (WIRTSCHAFTSWISSENSCHAFTEN); INTERNATIONALER VERGLEICH (GESICHTSPUNKT); CAPITALISM (ECONOMIC SYSTEMS); FREEDOM (PHILOSOPHY)Organisational unit
03716 - Sturm, Jan-Egbert / Sturm, Jan-Egbert
02525 - KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle / KOF Swiss Economic Institute
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