Income and Wealth Distributions Along the Business Cycle: Implications from the Neoclassical Growth Model

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Income and Wealth Distributions Along the Business Cycle: Implications from the Neoclassical Growth Model

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Lilia Maliar (Universidad de Alicante)
Serguei Maliar (Universidad de Alicante)
Juan Mora (Universidad de Alicante)

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This paper studies the business cycle dynamics of income and wealth distributions in the context of the neoclassical growth model where agents are heterogeneous in initial wealth and non-acquired skills. Our economy admits a representative consumer which enables us to characterize distributive dynamics by the evolution of aggregate quantities. We show that inequality in both wealth and income follow a countercyclical pattern: the former is countercyclical because labor income is more sensitive to the business cycle than capital income, while the latter is countercyclical due to the wealth-distribution effect. We find that the predictions of the model about the income distribution dynamics accord well with the U.S. data.

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Volume (Year): 5 (2005)
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Pages: 1238-1238
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- Juan Mora & Lilia Maliar & Serguei Maliar, 2003. "Income And Wealth Distributions Along The Business Cycle: Implications From The Neoclassical Growth Model," Working Papers. Serie AD 2003-02, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]

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Lilia Maliar & Serguei Maliar & Juan Mora, 2005. "Income and Wealth Distributions Along the Business Cycle: Implications from the Neoclassical Growth Model," Topics in Macroeconomics, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 5(1), pages 1238-1238. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions:
- Juan Mora & Lilia Maliar & Serguei Maliar, 2003. "Income And Wealth Distributions Along The Business Cycle: Implications From The Neoclassical Growth Model," Working Papers. Serie AD 2003-02, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]

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