(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2012) Woźniak, Michał Gabriel; Jabłoński, Łukasz
The aim of the paper is the statistical analysis of economic growth, human capital and inequality, which are disaggregated into activating and frustrating inequalities. The research was conducted on the OECD-countries during 1994–2008. The article consists of presenting the findings from the endogenous growth theory referring to the human capital impact on the income inequality, and findings from the empirical research between economic growth and income inequality. The following parts present disaggregated nature of inequality, i.e. activating, which foster economic growth and frustrating that mitigate the economic growth. The essential part of the paper is the empirical analysis of the relations between inequality, human capital and economic growth in the OECD countries. The conducted research provide strong arguments for anticipating the two natures of the inequalities in the economic growth research. The results of the calculations are not enough strong basis for producing findings about the relations between the economic categories concerned. However, it is justified to emphasize that human capital fosters the activating inequality and mitigates frustrating inequality. Thus, the activating inequality fosters economic growth and frustrating one limits the rate of economic growth.
