Redistributive Taxation, Democracy and Growth

Sylvain Dessy ()

Cahiers de recherche from Université Laval - Département d'économique

Abstract: The recent theorical literature on the political economy of growth displays contrasting findings on the nature of the political link between income inequality and growth. In this paper, we explain this contrast and argue that in a democracy, when redistribution is in the form of government expenditure on education, and government expenditure does not crowd out private expenditures by altruistic agents, a negative relation between inequality and growth emerges in equilibrium.

Keywords: Democracy; Education; Growth; Human capital; Income distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H23 H52 O15 O17 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm and nep-pub
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ecn.ulaval.ca/w3/recherche/cahiers/1998/9820.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Redistributive Taxation, Democracy and Growth (1998)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lvl:laeccr:9820

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Cahiers de recherche from Université Laval - Département d'économique Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Manuel Paradis ().