Redistribution, inequality, and growth revisited: Comment on 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence'

Markus Jäntti, Jukka Pirttilä and Risto Rönkkö

No wp-2020-117, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and inequality data the paper uses are not credible. They are largely based on imputations, not actual observations.

Keywords: Growth; Redistribution; Inequality; Cross-country analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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