Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
The elusive inequality-economic growth relationship: are there differences between cities and the countryside?
Abstract The inequality-economic growth debate remains unsettled. For instance, classical theories point to the importance of incentives in increasing growth, but recent theories stress social and political disruptions as causal factors in inhibiting growth. Conflicting empirical evidence has not helped, with contradictory findings arising when employing different samples and alternative econometric techniques. This study re-examines the linkage by contending that it is not surprising that past research uncovered conflicting findings. For example, the transmission mechanism through which inequality/economic incentives influence economic growth can be affected by factors such as urbanization and social cohesion. Using US county data over the 1990s, the empirical results suggest that the econometric results are unstable when considering weighted regressions over the entire sample. Yet, consistent with our hypothesized relationships, when separately considering metropolitan and nonmetropolitan samples, there is a positive inequality-growth link in the urban sample, with the opposite holding in the nonmetro case. Implications for both the inequality-growth literature and for public policy are discussed.
The elusive inequality-economic growth relationship: are there differences between cities and the countryside?
Abstract The inequality-economic growth debate remains unsettled. For instance, classical theories point to the importance of incentives in increasing growth, but recent theories stress social and political disruptions as causal factors in inhibiting growth. Conflicting empirical evidence has not helped, with contradictory findings arising when employing different samples and alternative econometric techniques. This study re-examines the linkage by contending that it is not surprising that past research uncovered conflicting findings. For example, the transmission mechanism through which inequality/economic incentives influence economic growth can be affected by factors such as urbanization and social cohesion. Using US county data over the 1990s, the empirical results suggest that the econometric results are unstable when considering weighted regressions over the entire sample. Yet, consistent with our hypothesized relationships, when separately considering metropolitan and nonmetropolitan samples, there is a positive inequality-growth link in the urban sample, with the opposite holding in the nonmetro case. Implications for both the inequality-growth literature and for public policy are discussed.
The elusive inequality-economic growth relationship: are there differences between cities and the countryside?
Fallah, Belal N. (Autor:in) / Partridge, Mark (Autor:in)
2006
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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