The links between growth and income distribution.

Summary The central objective of the thesis is to contribute to the analysis of the mechanisms linking income distribution and growth. The four parts of the thesis reflect the research strategy of first understanding the relationship between growth and inequality in standard models of growth, and then introducing models with successive modifications to agents' preferences. The modifications include the introduction of non-homothetic preferences and the inclusion of goods that are not assigned by market laws and that affect agents' preferences. All models developed in the thesis are based on endogenous growth theories based on learning by doing and externalities in human capital accumulation.