Rising top incomes do not raise the tide

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 504-519

  Herzer, Dierk ^a   Vollmer, Sebastian ^b,c  

^a HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth; Income inequality; Panel cointegration; Top income shares; Trickle down economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878947556     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2013.02.011     Document Type: Article

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