Technological Progress, Immiserizing Growth and Income Distribution

Chapter 4 Technological Progress and Economic Growth

Interaction Of Income Distribution, Taxes And Economic Growth

Corruption, Income Distribution, and Growth

This paper uses an encompassing framework developed by Murphy et al. (1991, 1993) to study corruption and how it affects income distribution and growth. We find that (1) corruption affects income distribution in an inverted U-shaped way, (2) corruption alone also explains a large proportion of the Gini differential across developing and industrial countries, and (3) that even after correcting f...

Technological Progress and the Distribution of Productivities across Sectors

This paper studies the impact of the process of technological change on the distribution of productivities and pro...ts across sectors. We ...nd that if technological progress a¤ects high-tech and traditional sectors di¤erently, the impact of changes in the determinants of economic growth may differ depending on which is the actual change. When an economy is growing faster due to an increase in...

Productivity Growth and Technological Progress in the Brazilian Agricultural Sector

Starting in the 1970’s, the Brazilian agricultural sector has experienced an important process of modernization, whose principal effects include advances in technological progress and gains in productivity. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze technological progress and total productivity growth in the Brazilian agricultural sector during the period from 1970 to 1996. The methodolo...