Income Inequality: Does Inflation Matter?

Author: Mr. Aleš Bulíř

Volume/Issue: Volume 1998 Issue 007

Publication date: January 1998

ISBN: 9781451928549

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Inflation , Economics- Macroeconomics , WP , income , GDP , low-inflation country , Income distribution , inflation , Kuznets hypothesis , low inflation , inflation sensitivity , high-inflation steady state , inflation variable , Income inequality , Personal income , Price stabilization , Eastern Europe , Africa , Asia and Pacific

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Summary

This paper contributes to the income inequality literature that is based on the traditional Kuznets model. Price stability, financial deepening, level of development, state employment, and fiscal redistribution are found to enhance income equality in a given country. While the effect of price stability is uniform for all levels of GDP per capita, the effect of financial deepening is found to increase with the level of development. Moreover, tight monetary policies do not seem to have any austere effects; low inflation reinforces, rather than counteracts, the income-equalizing effect of fiscal redistribution.