Innovation and inequality in the EU: for better or for worse?
This study investigates the link between innovation and income inequality in the EU. We use a panel of NUTS regions, and calculate income inequality measures based on EU-SILC, the GSOEP, and the BHPS of the years 2004 through 2014. Our estimates show evidence that innovation has significant and diverse effects deploying different income inequality indicators: it reduces inequality of the overall distribution and the gap between high incomes and lower and middle income groups, while enhancing at the same time high incomes.
DE PALO Claudia;
KARAGIANNIS Stylianos;
RAAB Roman;
2018-08-23
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC112623
978-92-79-90948-1,
1831-9424,
EUR 29303 EN,
OP KJ-NA-29303-EN-N,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC112623,
10.2760/365700,
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