The paper looks at the determinants of the size of the informal sector. We argue that corruption and informality … empirical exercises focus on wealth and income inequality as a key determinant. High degree of inequality leads to bigger … informal sector. We offer several plausible channels through inequality can impact the size of the informal sector. …

measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992–2010. Changes in these measures are … separated into rural and urban regions. We find that the PRC has grown rapidly with increasing inequality accompanying this …

bottom 10 and top 10 percentiles, quartiles and their movements during 1960-1990. …

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 …

countries, I find that there is a strong and significant relationship between top income shares and broader inequality measures …, such as the gini coefficient. This suggests that panel data on top income shares may be a useful substitute for other … measures of inequality over periods when alternative income distribution measures are of low quality, or unavailable …

rent on inequality. Mobilizing a dynamic panel data specification over the period 1996–2008, the econometric results yield … two important findings. First, there is a non-linear (U-shaped) relationship between oil rent and inequality. Specifically …, oil rent lowers inequality in the short run. This effect then diminishes over time as the oil revenues increase. Our …

change and income inequality. We find little support in the data for the Kuznetsian hypothesis of increasing inequality with …