Income Distribution and Macroeconomics

Labor Income Uncertainty and Macroeconomics

This is a response to email queries from Larry Christiano about my views on the role of uncertainty, and in particular unemployment risk, in business cycle fluctuations.

Macroeconomics, Human Development, and Distribution

Policies designed to pursue an equity-led macroeconomic growth strategy must take into account feedback effects, with distribution itself influencing macroeconomic outcomes. Under the right conditions, a more equitable distribution of income and opportunities in the form of human development can be a stimulus to growth, funding further investments in human development. Developing the policies t...

The Uniform-Pareto Distribution and Eeponentiated Uniform-Pareto Distribution and Their Application in Income Data

‎In this paper‎, ‎a new distribution is introduced‎, ‎which is a generalization of a well-known distribution‎. ‎This distribution is flexible and applies to income data modeling‎. ‎We first provide some of the mathematical and distributional properties of this new model and then‎, ‎to demonstrate the flexibility the new distribution‎, ‎we will present the applications of this distribution with ...

Interaction Of Income Distribution, Taxes And Economic Growth

Financial Development And The Distribution Of Income In MENA