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The Employment Effects of an Income Redistribution in Developing Countries

In: Technological Systems and Development

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  • Jeffrey James

    (Tilburg University)

  • Haider A. Khan

    (University of Denver)

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The 1970 ILO Mission Report to Colombia first proposed the notion that since the poor tend to consume a more labour-intensive basket of commodities than the rich, a redistribution of income in their favour will tend to increase employment. This proposal gave rise to a host of attempts in the 1970s to demonstrate its empirical validity in a number of developing countries. The results however provided only a very limited degree of support to the ILO hypothesis. Indeed, by 1978 ‘the clear conclusion of the general equilibrium macroeconomic models’ was that ‘income redistribution would have only a tiny effect on employment’.1

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  • Jeffrey James & Haider A. Khan, 1998. "The Employment Effects of an Income Redistribution in Developing Countries," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Technological Systems and Development, chapter 5, pages 87-104, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-26413-1_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26413-1_5
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    4. Rizwana Siddiqui & Zafar Iqbal, 1999. "Salient Features of Social Accounting Matrix of Pakistan for 1989-90: Disaggregation of the Households Sector," MIMAP Technical Paper Series 1999:01, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
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    6. Jeffrey James & Haider A. Khan, 1998. "Technology Choice and Income Distribution," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Technological Systems and Development, chapter 6, pages 105-130, Palgrave Macmillan.
    7. Zafar Iqbal & Rizwana Siddiqui, 1998. "The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Income Distribution in Pakistan A SAM-based Analysis," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 37(4), pages 377-397.
    8. Rizwana Siddiqui & Zafar Iqbal, 1999. "Social Accounting Matrix of Pakistan for 1989-90," PIDE Research Report 1999:171, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
    9. Schettino, Francesco & Gabriele, Alberto & Khan, Haider A., 2021. "Polarization and the middle class in China: A non-parametric evaluation using CHNS and CHIP data," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 251-264.
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