Economic Development and Income Inequality. A Re-examination of Kuznets's Law

Christopher Decker

No 532, Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from The University of Melbourne

Abstract: In Kuznets's (1955) classic paper on the relationship between economic growth and income inequality, the process of population shift from traditional to modern activities forms the basis of the theory of distributional change during the process of development. This relationship, known at Kuznets's law, which postulates that income inequality first increases and then decreases during the development process, is re-examined in this paper using data for fifteen developing countries.

Keywords: ECONOMIC GROWTH; INCOME (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 O40 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 1996
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