Edited by Amnon Levy, University of Wollongong, Australia and João Ricardo Faria, Professor, Department of Economics, College of Business, Florida Atlantic University, US

• Contents: Preface Part I: Inequality: Implications for Growth, Labour Market Integration and Policy 1. Inequality and Economic Growth: A Review of the Literature 2. Growth and Income Inequality in Advanced, Capitalist, Stable Economies: Evidence from Australia 3. Median Income: Modelling and Implications for Assessing Growth and Convergence 4. Income Inequality among Different Regions in China’s Post-Reform Era 5. Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending: Theory and Panel Data Evidence 6. Employment Inequality, Employment Regulation and Social Welfare7. Oligarchy Power and Inflation in Brazil Part II: Migration: Unemployment, Assimilation, Expected Returns and Risk 8. Migration, Unemployment and the Optimal Tax: Implications for Growth and Income Distribution 9. Supply, Demand and Disequilibrium in the Market of Immigrants 10. Migration Timing: Expected Returns, Risk Aversion and Assimilation Costs 11. The Effects of Income Disparities on Inter-Regional Migration in a Technologically Developed Country: Evidence from Australia 12. Populate or Perish: Scale, Growth and Australia’s Post-War Immigration 13. Demographic Change, Foreign Borrowing and Intergenerational Equity Part III: Growth: Trade, Capital Accumulation and Debts 14. Trade Liberalisation and Labour Markets in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence 15. Relative Wages and Trade in a Growing Small Open Economy: Mexico, 1987–95 16. R&D Spillovers and Export Performance: Evidence from the OECD Countries 17. Finite Lifetimes, Economic Policies and Capital Accumulation 18. Optimal Capital Accumulation with Trade, Sovereign Debt and Trustworthy Reputation Index

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