INCOME INEQUALITY AND TECHNOLOGY: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
GELİR EŞİTSİZLİĞİ VE TEKNOLOJİ: KARŞILAŞTIRMALI BİR PERSPEKTİF

Author : Leyla Firuze ARDA ÖZALP -- Hüseyin ÖZALP
Number of pages : 338-353

Abstract

Over the past 40 years or more, world economy have witnessed a signifincant increase in income inequality. The underlying factors behind rising income inequality are hotly debated issues. A widely acknowledged fact that techonology has some side effect on inequality. Primary objective of this study is to analyse whether there is a relation between inequality and technology. By focussing on the relationship between technology and inequality we argue that technology could be one of these principal factors especially for US. The empirical results of this study show that technology is certainly a such factor for US but not for France because of their different inequality trend and some different policies that pointed out by Acemoğlu (2003) and Smeeding (2004).

Keywords

Inequality, Income inequality, Technology, ARDL bound test

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