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Deriving Long-Run Inequality Series from Tax Data
Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004
Prior to the last three decades, regular surveys on household income were rare or non-existent in many developed countries, making it difficult for economists to develop long-run series on income distribution. Using taxation statistics, which tend to be available over a longer time span, I...
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Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2009
Foellmi, Reto; Martínez, Isabel Z. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We study the recent evolution of top incomes in Switzerland, analyzing both social security data on labor incomes and tax data on total income. The results show that in the last 20 years, the share of top incomes has risen, and the top 0.01 percent’s share even doubled, putting Switzerland...
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Education, Income Distribution, and Growth: The Local Connection
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
stratification. Imperfect capital markets are not necessary, but will compound these other sources. Second, stratification makes … to reduce stratification, it may improve educational achievement in poor communities much less than it lowers it in … policy to improve both equity and efficiency. Fifth, because of the cumulative nature of the stratification process, it is …
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Dynastic Inequality, Mobility and Equality of Opportunity
Kanbur, Ravi; Stiglitz, Joseph E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what matters for normative evaluation. In response to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252615
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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Earnings Inequality in Norway, 1967-2000
Almas, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age-structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male Norwegian over the period 1967-2000. We find that the...
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The Effects of Assortative Mating on Income Inequality: A Decompositional Analysis
Worner, Shane Mathew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Using the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Survey of Income and Household Costs, this paper explores the effect of changing assortative mating patterns on income inequality. Evidence from theoretical and mathematically calibrated models suggest that assortative mating has distributional...
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On Income Inequality and Democracy: Theories and Findings in Search of a Viable Data Base.
Castles, F.G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996
This paper seeks to evaluate the findings of cross-national research on the relationship between income inequality and democracy and to assess the prospects of future research in the area.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977275
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Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality?
Krueger, Dirk; Perri, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper first documents the evolution of the cross-sectional income and consumption distribution in the US in the past 25 years. Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey we find that a rising income inequality has not been accompanied by a corresponding rise in consumption inequality....
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Controversies about the Rise in American Inequality: A Survey
Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes;...
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A Gini Decomposition Analysis of Inequality in the Czech and Slovak Republics during the Transition
Garner, Thesia I; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Disposable income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient and using Family Budget Survey data, increased very … analysis of changes in the channels of redistribution and a Gini decomposition. We find that the sizeable increase in overall …
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