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Growth, inequality and labor markets in LDCs : a survey : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on dissecting globalization, July 2004
Qimḥî, Ayyāl - 2004
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality increases with growth. The paper argues that the methodologies used in many of the empirical applications, designed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450868
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How high can you climb? : earnings inequality and intragenerational earnings mobility in a developing country : evidence from Thai tax returns
Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 2023
This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013484931
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Optimal redistribution : rising inequality vs. rising living standards
Ferriere, Axelle; Grübener, Philipp; Sachs, Dominik - 2024
Over the last decades, the United States has experienced a large increase in, both, income inequality and living standards. The workhorse models of optimal income taxation call for more redistribution as inequality rises. By contrast, living standards play no role for taxes and transfers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551008
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Inequality and growth : the dual role of human capital in development
Eicher, Theo S. - 2000
To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781636
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How should capital be taxed? : theory and evidence from Sweden
Bastani, Spencer; Waldenström, Daniel - 2018
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of capital taxation in advanced economies with a focus on the Swedish experience. We synthesize the existing theoretical literature, present facts about the capital stock and its distribution, review current capital tax practices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825361
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Endogenous longevity and optimal tax progressivity
Heer, Burkhard; Rohrbacher, Stefan - 2020
We study the impact of endogenous longevity on optimal tax progressivity and inequality in an overlapping generations model with skill heterogeneity. Higher tax progressivity decreases both the longevity gap and net income inequality, but at the expense of lower average lifetime and lower...
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The economic effects of Covid-19 in Sweden : a report on income, taxes, distribution, and government support policies
Angelov, Nikolay; Waldenström, Daniel - 2023
This report analyses the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and support policies using underutilized data sources from the Swedish Tax Agency's tax register, which provides real-time information on firm sales and employees' wage income. Firms' sales, particularly in areas heavily...
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Hours inequality
Checchi, Daniele; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Vivian, Lara - 2022
The vast literature on earnings inequality has so far largely ignored the role played by hours of work. This paper argues that in order to understand earnings dispersion we need to consider not only the dispersion of hourly wages but also inequality in hours worked as well as the correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472299
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Optimal taxation of robots
Thuemmel, Uwe - 2018
I study the optimal taxation of robots and labor income. In the model, robots substitute for routine labor and complement non-routine labor. I show that while it is optimal to distort robot adoption, robots may be either taxed or subsidized. The robot tax exploits general-equilibrium effects to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926330
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2002
imperfect substitution and skill biased technological change closes the gap between the Mincer equation and GDP growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408972