Replication data for: Income Inequality, Capitalism, and Ethno-linguistic Fractionalization

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jan-Egbert Sturm; Jakob De Haan

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Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism. Our results suggest that there is no robust relationship between economic freedom and Gini coefficients based on gross income. Subsequently, we analyze the relationship between income redistribution and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that have a high degree of fractionalization redistribute income less, while capitalist countries that have a low degree of fractionalization redistribute income more.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms [Income inequality, ethnic fractionalisation, capitalism]
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
      D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
      E02 Institutions and the Macroeconomy
      H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
      O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
      O43 Institutions and Growth
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage up to 108 countries
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) [observational data, aggregate data]

Methodology

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Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation countries-years,

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