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The Impact of Growth on Distribution of Income across Ethnic Groups: a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) Approach
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Saari, M. Yusof Dietzenbacher, Erik Los, Bart |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | The present paper examines the impact of growth estimated in the Ninth Malaysia Plan on the distribution of income among various ethnic groups across regions by employing two types of SAM models. Besides typical approach of Pyatt and Round (1979), we provide an alternative approach by treating government as an endogenous in the model of multiplier. The latter approach however has to be modified by adopting a mixed endogenousexogenous SAM multiplier for ensuring demand and supply derived are internally consistent. We find that both models show the growth has significant impact in improving the distribution of income especially to enhance income of low-income group. By introducing government sector into the model, the income inequality among ethnics reduced significantly by generating a large income effect through the inter-dependency effect. We are also observe that source of inter-ethnic inequality in the economy is largely explained by unbalancing in labour structure. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.iioa.org/conferences/16th/files/Papers/Saari%20The%20Impact%20of%20Growth%20on%20Distribution%20of%20Income%20across%20Ethnic%20Groups.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
