corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … variables. We find that in the absence of the shadow economy, corruption increases inequality. However, with larger shadow …A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less …

Lacroix (2009) using very different estimation methods and data. …

This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality … workers) leads to: higher unemployment, less income inequality, a higher proportion of formal employment, and a lower formal …

corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic … by high inequality and poverty, a useful tool for the government to pacify social unrest, is to choose a lower level of … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher …

We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five … quarters drawn from Mexico’s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two …

more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes … elasticity declines over time after 1981. It is invariant to controlling for income inequality but diminished upon controlling …

We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require … used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy first expands rapidly with a large decline in inequality, plateaus … when inequality remains relatively stable, and then decreases rapidly with a large increase in inequality. This novel …

. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among … countries where inequality decreased, short-term mobility increased in Denmark, Spain, Ireland and UK, and decreased in Belgium …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …