Does inflation targeting increase income inequality?

Does natural resource abundance increase Latin American income inequality ? 1

Why is income inequality higher in Latin America than in East Asia? Is this phenomenon related to the region’s natural resource abundance? Is it a contributor to Latin America’s slow and narrowly focused human capital accumulation? If so, can anything be done to reverse the Latin American trends, or should we think of the region’s fate as unalterable? To help answer these questions, this paper ...

Does Inflation Targeting Matter?

Since it was first introduced by New Zealand and Chile in 1990, Canada in 1991, and the United Kingdom in 1992, inflation targeting (IT) has received a lot of attention in the public and academic debate over the design of monetary policy regimes. In part, this attention reflects the growing number of countries that have adopted an IT regime over the past decade. Schaechter, Stone, and Zelmer (2...

Does Population Aging Affect Income Inequality in Iran?

Objectives: The aging of the population in recent years in Iran has raised concerns among policymakers in various fields. Some economic theories consider the changes in the age structure and population aging as one of the important issues affecting the income inequality of societies. This study aims to assess the effect of population aging on the income inequality in Iran. Methods & Materials:...

Does slow growth increase inequality?

Does Modern Management Increase Inequality?

This paper examines whether modern management, characterized by performance and target based practices, explains the recent rise in wage inequality. I hypothesize that modern management’s shift to performance pay, management-skill complementarity, and managementtechnology complementarity contribute to the increase in wage inequality within establishments. The period after the Asian Financial Cr...