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Intergenerational mobility of economic well-being in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022 - This version: 31 August 2022
We estimate, for the first time, long-run trends in intergenerational economic mobility for a multitude of countries in Latin America going beyond parent-child correlations in educational attainment. We use several indicators of well-being, such as the socio-economic situation of individuals,...
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Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries
Alvaredo, Facundo; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2013
This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010198464
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Incentives, Globalization, and Redistribution
Haufler, Andreas - 2020
We offer a new explanation for why taxes have become less progressive in many countries in parallel with an increase in income inequality. When performance-based compensation differentials are needed to incentivize effort, redistribution through progressive income taxes becomes less precisely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827110
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The Social Cost of Carbon and Inequality : When Local Redistribution Shapes Global Carbon Prices
Kornek, Ulrike - 2019
The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870643
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Deprivation and the dimnensionality of welfare : a variable-selection cluster-analysis approach
Caruso, Germán; Sosa Escudero, Walter; Svarc, Marcela - 2011
the "poor/non-poor" classification in the first stage. -- Multidimensional welfare ; poverty ; factory analysis ; clusters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772508
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La desigualdad en su laberinto : hechos y perspectivas sobre desigualdad de ingresos en América Latina
Gasparini, Leonardo - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137862
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Los cambios en la distribución del ingreso de Argentina entre 1998 y 2005
Ignacio Zoloa, Juan - 2011
This paper analyses the changes in inequality occurred during the period 1998 - 2005. A set of results are presented in order to contribute to a better understanding of the changes in inequality. The obtained results show that important distributive effects were hidden by the apparent observed...
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Opportunity and Inequality Across Generations
Koeniger, Winfried - 2020
We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic and persistent across generations. We calibrate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841147
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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
Apps, Patricia F. - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830349
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Redistribution of Return Inequality
Schulz, Karl - 2021
Wealthier households obtain higher returns on their investments than poorer ones. How should the tax system account for this return inequality? I study capital taxation in an economy in which return rates endogenously correlate with wealth. The leading example is a financial market, where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233147