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Lower Volatility, Higher Inequality: Are They Related?

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  • Ozan Eksi

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We investigate the relationship between GDP volatility and income inequality to explain the changes in both variables in the last decades of 20th century. The theoretical results show that these variables are related to the same parameters of the underlying income microdata. These results are supported by two empirical findings: (i) the simultaneity of the structural breaks in the GDP volatility and income inequality series across five industrialized countries; and (ii) the consistency of the results obtained from decomposing the US GDP volatility and income inequality data with those obtained from the US income microdata. The latter finding explains the diverging trends of the variables during the Great Moderation era. It also finds support for the argument that income inequality gives long-lasting responses to structural economic changes.
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  • Ozan Eksi, 2013. "Lower Volatility, Higher Inequality: Are They Related?," Working Papers 1303, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Department of Economics.
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    1. Ozan Eksi, 2023. "Traces of the past in income inequality," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 21(4), pages 815-834, December.
    2. Goodness C. Aye & Giray Gozgor & Rangan Gupta, 2020. "Dynamic and Asymmetric Response of Inequality to Income Volatility: The Case of the United Kingdom," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 147(3), pages 747-762, February.
    3. Chang, Shinhye & Gupta, Rangan & Miller, Stephen M. & Wohar, Mark E., 2019. "Growth volatility and inequality in the U.S.: A wavelet analysis," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 521(C), pages 48-73.

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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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