Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247009 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Papers in Economic History No. 78
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
Apart from measuring inequality and poverty at the provincial level in Spain between 1860 and 1930, this paper empirically assesses the relationship between economic growth and both inequality and destitution. The results, on the one hand, confirm the presence of a Kuznets' curve. However, although growing incomes did not directly contribute to reducing inequality, at least during the early stages of modern economic growth, other processes associated with economic growth significantly improved the situation of the bottom part of the population. On the other hand, growing incomes and lower inequality levels are shown to have been pro-poor.
Subjects: 
Inequality
economics growth
economic history
Spain
Kuznets curve
JEL: 
O10
N13
N14
I30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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