"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …

This paper provides an estimation of the size of income and demand automatic stabilizers in a representative sample of … size of income and demand automatic stabilizers coefficients is much smaller than the size of these coefficients in Europe … income stabilization coefficient and two others affecting directly the demand stabilization coefficient. The main results …

income persistence coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel data for Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay indicate that … indicate the direction of such mobility, the estimates of income differentials between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs for …

This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation … 1990 and 2007, this paper finds that i) countries with historically more unequal distributions of wealth and income … lower shares of personal income taxes in GDP. present higher levels of legislative malapportionment, and ii) higher levels …