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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Schumpeterian Entrepreneurs Meet Engel's Law: The Impact of Inequality on Innovation-Driven Growth |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics |
| Number | No. 9 |
| ISSN | 1424-0459 |
| Date | 1999 |
| Abstract Text | This paper analyzes the impact of inequality on growth when technical progress is driven by innovations and consumers have hierarchic preferences. Inequality has an impact on growth because it affects the structure and the dynamics of demand. Redistribution from very rich to very poor consumers is beneficial for growth. In general, the growth effect depends on the nature of redistribution. Due to a demand externality of R&D activities multiple equilibria are possible. |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/wp.html |
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