Natural Resources & Income Inequality: The Role of Ethnic Divisions

Ruikang Marcus Fum and Roland Hodler

No 23, OxCarre Working Papers from Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: We hypothesize that natural resources raise income inequality in ethnically polarized societies, but reduce income inequality in ethnically homogenous societies; and we present empirical evidence in support of this hypothesis.

Keywords: Natural resources; inequality; ethnic polarization; resource curse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D7 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-06-16
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