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rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …
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-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
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The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
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This paper studies optimal dynamic tax policy under the threat of political reform. A policy will be reformed ex post if a large enough political coalition supports reform; thus, sustainable policies are those that will continue to attract enough political support in the future. We find that...
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This paper discusses the data limitations associated with the measurement of top incomes and inequality in the Middle … East, with special emphasis to the case of Egypt. It has been noted that high inequality might have contributed to the Arab … spring revolt movement. Some studies have argued however that measured inequality in Middle East countries is not …
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scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labour scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labour scarcity and … in today's world? This paper argues that modern debates about inequality and schooling responses to globalization should …
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liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization is associated with increases in … inequality in countries well-endowed in highly skilled workers and capital or with workers that have very low education levels …, and in countries relatively well-endowed in mining and fuels while it is associated with decreases in inequality in …
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This paper analyzes the effects of information about inequality and taxes on preferences for redistribution using … interactive information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax …. We find that the informational treatment has very large effects on whether respondents view inequality as an important …
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: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill …This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately …-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes; consumption inequality; geographical inequality; and international differences …
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extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …
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