Einkommensungleichheit, Kapitalismus und ethno-linguistische Fragmentierung

Jakob de Haan and Jan-Egbert Sturm

KOF Analysen, 2015, vol. 9, issue 1, 93-99

Abstract: We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism. Our results suggest that there is no robust relationship between economic freedom and Gini coefficients based on gross income. Subsequently, we analyse the relationship between income redistribution and ethno-linguistic fractionalisation. We find that the impact of ethno-linguistic fractionalisation on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that have a high degree of fractionalisation redistribute income less, while capitalist countries that have a low degree of fractionalisation redistribute income more.

Keywords: Income inequality; redistribution; economic freedom; ethno-linguistic fragmentation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 F02 O11 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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