Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy

1. The Inheritance of Employers and Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility
Miles Corak, Patrizio Piraino, Francisco H. G. Ferreira

2. Do Nations Just Get the Inequality They Deserve? The “Palma Ratio” Re-examined
José Gabriel Palma, Joseph E. Stiglitz

3. The University of Texas Inequality Project Global Inequality Data Sets, 1963–2008: Updates, Revisions and Quality Checks
James K. Galbraith, Beatrice Halbach, Aleksandra Malinowska, Amin Shams, Wenjie Zhang, Edward N. Wolff

4. Inequality and the Fragility of Growth
Jonathan D. Ostry, François Bourguignon

5. Does Wealth Distribution and the Source of Wealth Matter for Economic Growth? Inherited v. Uninherited Billionaire Wealth and Billionaires’ Political Connections
Sutirtha Bagchi, Jan Svejnar, Kendra Bischoff

6. Inequality in Arab Countries
Radwan A. Shaban, Shantayanan Devarajan

7. Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America
Nora Lustig, Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, Célestin Monga

8. Caste Discrimination in Contemporary India
Ashwini Deshpande, William Darity

Keywords: Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Development Economics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods