Inequality and development: the role of dualism

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bourguignon, F; Morrisson, C
• 署名单位: heSam Universite; Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3878(98)00089-3
• 发表日期: 1998
• 页码: 233-257
• 关键词: Income distribution; Development; dualism

摘要

This paper suggests major factors in country differences in income distribution largely overlooked in the literature on inequality and development. They concern the extent of economic dualism, as proxied macroeconomically by the relative labour productivity of non-agricultural sectors vs. agriculture and related variables. The result is robust with respect to both the composition of the sample, the observation period and inclusion of country fixed effects, in marked contrast to what happens when the analysis is limited to more traditional variables, like GDP per capita or average level of schooling. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: D31; 015.