An empirical test of the inequality trap concept

Caroline Daymon and Céline Gimet

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 105, issue 2, 165-167

Abstract: The paper uses a GMM estimation to prove the impact of equity on inequality persistence which suggests the presence of inequality trap, and underline the significant influence of the credit market, wealth and education access initial levels.

Keywords: Dynamic; panel; data; model; EHII; Equity; GMM-system; Inequality; traps (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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