Redistribución, desigualdad y crecimiento
Redistribution, inequality, and growth
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Ostry, J.D., Berg, A. y Tsangarides, C.G. 2014. Redistribución, desigualdad y crecimiento. Revista de Economía Institucional. 16, 30 (jun. 2014).
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Este artículo emplea un conjunto de datos reciente que distingue entre desigualdad neta y de mercado, y permite calcular las transferencias redistributivas anuales de un gran número de países. Las principales conclusiones son: 1. Sociedades más desiguales tienden a redistribuir más. 2. Una menor desigualdad neta se correlaciona robustamente con un crecimiento más rápido y más durable, dado un nivel de redistribución. 3. El impacto de la redistribución sobre el crecimiento parece ser benigno en general, y hay evidencia de que solo en casos extremos puede tener efectos negativos. Por tanto, sus efectos conjuntos, directos e indirectos –incluidos los efectos de la menor desigualdad resultante–, son favorables al crecimiento. Pese a las limitaciones inherentes al conjunto de datos y al análisis de regresión, no se puede suponer que hay un gran trade-off entre redistribución y crecimiento; los mejores datos macroeconómicos disponibles no respaldan esa hipótesis.
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Okun, A. M. Equality and efficiency: The big trade-off, Washington, Brookings Institution Press, 1975.
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Persson, T. y G. Tabellini. “Federal fiscal constitutions: Risk sharing and redistribution”, Journal of Political Economy 104, 5, 1996, pp. 979-1009.
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Thewissen, S. H. “Is it the income distribution or redistribution that affects growth?”, Socio-Economic Review, 2013, de próxima publicación (anunciado en línea en octubre de 2013).
Wilkinson, R. y K. Pickett. The spirit level: Why greater equality makes societies stronger, New York, Bloomsbury Press, 2009.