Arbeitspapier
Violent conflict and inequality
This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks around five years after the end of a conflict, it declines again to pre-war levels within the end of the first post-war period. Lagged effects of conflict and only subsequent adjustments of redistributive policies in the period of post-war reconstruction seem to be valid explanations for these patterns of inequality. A series of alternative specifications confirms the main findings of the analysis.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4990
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Thema
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Conflict
war
inequality
reconstruction
income distribution
Krieg
Kriegsfolgen
Verteilungswirkung
Einkommensverteilung
Schätzung
Welt
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Bircan, Cagatay
Brück, Tilman
Vothknecht, Marc
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bircan, Cagatay
- Brück, Tilman
- Vothknecht, Marc
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2010
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