Income Inequality, Growth, and the Enlargement of the European Union

Yešim Kuštepeli

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2006, vol. 42, issue 6, 77-88

Abstract: This study investigates the relation between income inequality and economic growth, namely, the Kuznets curve, in the context of EU enlargement. The results have implications regarding how the latest enlargement of the European Union affects the relationship between income inequality and growth, for both EU member countries and the European Union as a region. Estimation results show that there is no evidence of a significant original or reverse Kuznets curve for any of the groups of countries in this study. Therefore, empirical results suggest that the latest enlargement, and a possible future accession of the candidates, may not change the fact that a Kuznets curve does not exist for the European Union.

Keywords: enlargement of the European Union; European Union; growth; income inequality; Kuznets curve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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