...Van Bon Nguyen Purpose Both income inequality and inflation can lead to social instability. Does inflation impact income inequality differently between advanced and developing countries? This paper delves into this question by analyzing the effects of inflation on income inequality across a sample...

...Ricardo Barradas Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the current debate between the mainstream and the non-mainstream literature on the effect of the growth of finance on the level of income inequality, for which the empirical evidence has also been providing mixed results. Design...

...Lucia Errico; Andrea Mosca; Sandro Rondinella Purpose This study explores whether ethnic minorities exhibit varying levels of income inequality compared to the host population. Design/methodology/approach The research leverages a unique immigration event in Italy, specifically the settlement...

...Luccas Assis Attílio Purpose This article analyzes the impact of monetary policy on income inequality across 16 advanced economies. The author investigates three key points: (1) the relationship between domestic monetary policy and domestic income inequality, (2) the spillover effect of USA...

...Shobhana Sikhawal Purpose This study examines the non-linear impact of financial development on income inequality and analyses the mediators through which financial development affects income inequality. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a dynamic panel threshold method...

...Yongseung Han; Myeong Hwan Kim Purpose Faced with contradictory outcomes in empirical studies on the relation between democracy and income inequality, this paper attempts to provide empirical relations between democracy and income inequality. In particular, the authors seek to find if any...

...), the results reveal a significant positive relationship between real interest rates and income inequality measured through the market Gini coefficient and polarization ratios. The findings suggest that central bankers should be more aware of the redistributive effects of monetary policy. Research...

...Biruk Birhanu Ashenafi; Yan Dong Purpose The purpose of this study is to firstly, find out does the relationship between finance, trade and income inequality provides matching evidence using the macro- and firm-level data? Secondly, whether a causal relationship from the firm-specific data can...

...Nicholas Apergis Purpose This study explores the role of rising US student loan debt in explaining income inequality. Design/methodology/approach The study uses the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) modeling approach to explore the short- and long-run impact of college debt on income...

...Constantinos Alexiou; Emmanouil Trachanas Purpose Despite the existing conceptual analysis on the impact of trade unions on employees' welfare and the wider economy, the mediating effect of political party orientation (i.e., right, centre and left) on income inequality remains under researched...

...Jeleta Gezahegne Kebede; Vincent Tawiah Purpose The general purpose of the paper is to examine the effect of financial globalization on income inequality. The specific purposes are: 1) To examine the effect of overall financial globalization on income inequality. 2) To analyze whether de...

...Patricia Kako Ouraga Purpose This paper investigates the joint relationship between economic growth, income inequality and fiscal adjustments using a panel of 47 Japanese prefectures from 1998 to 2017. Design/methodology/approach To assess jointly fiscal adjustment impacts on growth...

...Konstantina Liosi; Spyros Spyrou Purpose This study examines the impact of monetary policy on income inequality in Eurozone countries for the period between 2005 and 2017. Design/methodology/approach The authors use regression analysis, panel vector autoregression (PVAR) analysis and impulse...

...Iftikhar Khan; Ismail Khan; Aziz Ullah Sayal; Muhammad Zubair Khan Purpose The aim of the study is to examine the impact of financial inclusion on poverty, income inequality and financial stability using panel data of 54 African countries. Design/methodology/approach To achieve this objective...

...Constantinos Alexiou; Emmanouil Trachanas; Sofoklis Vogiazas Purpose The authors explore the impact of financialization on income inequality for a panel of 19 OECD countries over the period 2000–2017. The authors control for the effect of banking crises, credit market regulation and globalization...

... with a significant number of households (over 56,000 individuals) to analyze the impacts of tax policies on poverty and income inequality of Malaysian. Findings Simulation results show that, under the balanced budget condition, personal and corporate income tax reductions increase economic growth, household...

...Sima Siami-Namini; Darren Hudson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate both linear and/or nonlinear effects of inflation on income inequality and to test the Kuznets hypothesis using panel data of 24 developed countries (DCs) and 66 developing countries (LDCs) observed over...

...Sima Siami-Namini; Darren Hudson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of growth in different sectors of the economy of developing countries on income inequality and analyze how inflation, as a proxy for monetary policy, makes a proportionate contribution for setting a binding...

... of this paper is to investigate the nonlinear relationship between shadow economy and income inequality and determine whether the size of shadow economy can influence the level of income inequality. Both parametric (panel OLS) and nonparametric/semiparametric regression suggested by Robinson (1988...

...Athanasios Tsagkanos Purpose The purpose of this paper, in contrast to other studies, is to examine an indirect relationship in terms of the effect of income inequality with stock market development in countries South of the Euro-zone during the period 2002-2013. Design/methodology/approach...