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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1978 - 2009: A decomposition approach
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2011
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278404
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Alberto Alesina (1957-2020): Man, Researcher, Professor of Economics, Popularizer
Vindigni, Andrea - 2023
This paper offers an overview of Alberto Alesina's life and of his scholarly work (§ 1 and 2). It will be argued, that Alberto would have entirely deserved the award of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science, except only for his premature passing away. His foundational contribution was the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469531
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Factor Shares, Redistribution and Growth in a Captured Democracy
Vindigni, Andrea - 2024
inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital … speaking reflecting inequality) has somewhat interesting effects along the transitional path towards balanced growth. Hereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469727
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Partisan tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979 - 2007
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2013
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to … tax policy effect aggravated income inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle … class' share. The tax policy effect accounts for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291407
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Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246707
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Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to … tax policy effect aggravated income inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle … class' share. The tax policy effect accounts for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011085100
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Linking individuals and societies
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science - population and variable. Starting with the simplest case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269509
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment: First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269942
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Race v. suffrage: The determinants of development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280698
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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282571