Uneven income distribution is a problem that affects many nations throughout the world, including Indonesia, and if it not remedied right away, process of economic progress will be slowed. This study examines relationship between growth agricultural sector, human development index, labor force participation rate, inflation in West Sumatra Province from 2007 to 2022. The Central Bureau Statistic...

Probability models of income distribution provide for evaluation of the living standard of population of a country at whole as well as for comparison of the living standard of different social classes or regions in the country. For creation of a probability model it is important both, to find a theoretical distribution function that characterizes empirical frequency distribution and to choose s...

Economists have long been interested in the idea that there is a direct circular relation between poverty and low productivity, and not just one that is mediated by market failures, usually in asset markets. The nutrition-based e¢ ciency wage model (Dasgupta-Ray, 1987) is the canonical example of models where this happens: Howevrer it has been variously suggested (see for example Srinivasan, 19...

The paper analyses the relationship between within-country income inequality and policies of domestic liberalization and external globalization. The models used to provide the rationale for such reforms—such as the Hecksher-Ohlin model—usually predict a decline in inequality. However, the evidence shows that inequality often rose with the introduction of such reforms. The paper tries to explain...

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...

Empirical work relating trade liberalization and income distribution has identified an important anomaly. The Stolper-Samuelson theorem predicts that trade liberalization will shift income toward a country’s abundant factor. For developing countries, this suggests liberalization will principally benefit the abundant unskilled labor. Yet extensive empirical studies have identified many cases wit...

Although remaining concentrated in lower income groups, elderly households achieved significantly greater equality of income distribution between 1967 and 1997; the gap with the income distribution of nonelderly households narrowed are professors of economics, and Luojia Mao Daniel is a doctoral candidate in economics, A lthough many older Americans are financially comfortable, with a significa...