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Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research 2/2019

05.06.2018

Kuznets Curve for the US: A Reconsideration Using Cosummability

verfasst von: Adnen Ben Nasr, Mehmet Balcilar, Seyi Saint Akadiri, Rangan Gupta

Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 2/2019

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Abstract

The relationship between income inequality and long-run economic growth has gained a growing attention in economic research for over decades. This study employed advanced time series techniques to examine the existence of an inverted U-shaped long-run relationship between income inequality and economic growth, using long-span time series data for the United States between the periods 1917–2012. The concepts of summability, balancedness and co-summability was advanced to analyze nonlinear long-run relations among stochastic processes. The empirical results find no evidence in support of nonlinear long-run (inverted U-shaped) relationship for the US, but findings from a vocal set of economists lends strong support and is the basis for the conclusions drawn by this study.

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Fußnoten
1
For interested reader see the work of Kuznets (1955) and Anand and Kanbur (1993).
 
2
In this study we use income per capita and economic growth synonymously.
 
3
There are many reasons why income inequality would negatively or positively influence economic growth. For more details see Weil (2005) and Toshiaki (2005).
 
4
For an exposition on the estimation of this series and file including percentile threshold see Frank, Sommeiller–Price and Saez. Interested reader for further explanation on estimation of other measures of income share or distribution should see Frank (2009).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Kuznets Curve for the US: A Reconsideration Using Cosummability
verfasst von
Adnen Ben Nasr
Mehmet Balcilar
Seyi Saint Akadiri
Rangan Gupta
Publikationsdatum
05.06.2018
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 2/2019
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-1940-1

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