An empirical test of the inequality trap concept

Economics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-167

  Daymon, Caroline ^a   Gimet, Celine ^b  

^a DEFI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel data model; EHII; Equity; GMM system; Inequality traps

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349192681     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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