Jan?Egbert Sturm|Jakob de Haan
Income Inequality, Capitalism, and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization
Swiss Finance Institute|ETH Zurich|De Nederlandsche Bank|University of Groningen
examine relationship capitalism income inequality large sample countries using adjusted economic freedom index proxy capitalism results suggest robust relationship economic freedom gini coefficients based gross income subsequently analyze relationship income redistribution ethnolinguistic fractionalization find impact ethnolinguistic fractionalization income redistribution conditional level economic freedom countries high degree fractionalization redistribute income less capitalist countries low degree fractionalization redistribute income