The effect of growth volatility on income inequality |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Banking and Finance, Tamkang University, Taiwan;2. Department of Economics, Feng Chia University, Taiwan;3. Department of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States;4. Department of Finance, Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan;1. Griffin Capital Corporation, El Segundo, CA 90245, USA;2. Department of Economics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan;3. Bank SinoPac, Taipei 104, Taiwan;1. Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento, Via Inama 5, Trento TN 38122, Italy;2. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, Povo TN 38123, Italy |
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| Abstract: | This paper assesses the long-run effect of growth volatility on income inequality using a comprehensive panel of annual U.S. state-level data during the 1945 to 2004 period. Using the pooled mean group (PMG) estimator, we find evidence supporting the hypothesis that larger growth volatility positively and significantly associates with higher income inequality. Our key finding is robust to alternative lag structures, conditioning variables, inequality measures, volatility indicators, time periods, and panel estimators. Our key finding does change for asymmetric effects, where larger growth volatility positively and significantly associates with higher income inequality only for positive economic growth. The volatility effect proves positive, but insignificant, for negative economic growth. |
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