01806cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF000302 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451841862 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Van Houdt, Patrick. Do Labor Market Policies and Growth Fundamentals Matter for Income Inequality in Oecd Countries? : Some Empirical Evidence / Patrick Van Houdt. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997. 1 online resource (26 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Income distribution may be related to fundamentals affecting economic growth and to labor market policies. Noting that inequality is affected by unemployment. This paper presents a model in which labor market policies affect unemployment which in turn affects inequality. The model also includes the effects of changes in per capita income on inequality through the accumulation of physical capital and technological know-how. When a resulting reduced-form relationship is estimated, its explanatory power is surprisingly high: on average, it explains about three quarters of the variation in inequality measures for the OECD countries, and Granger Causality tests confirm the model's predictions. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/003 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1997/003/001.1997.issue-003-en.xml IMF e-Library