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The Insurance Value of State Tax-and-Transfer Programs

Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2010

This paper estimates the total value that individuals derive from their state's tax-and-transfer program, and shows how this value varies by income. The paper decomposes this total value into two components: redistributive value, which is due to predictable changes in income (and family...

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Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States : Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data

Abowd, John M. - 2019

Using earnings data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this paper analyzes the role of the employer in explaining the rise in earnings inequality in the United States. We first establish a consistent frame of analysis appropriate for administrative data used to study earnings inequality. We show that...

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Empathy and Emulation : Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups

Barrington-Leigh, Christopher - 2014

Departures from self-centred, consumption-oriented decision making are increasingly common in economic theory and are well motivated by a wide range of behavioural data from experiments, surveys, and econometric inference. A number of studies have shown large negative externalities in individual...

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African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think!

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2013

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African...

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Distributional issues in the context of the economic crisis in Europe

Watt, Andrew - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 44 (2009) 2, pp. 82-89

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Distributional issues in the context of the economic crisis in Europe

Watt, Andrew - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 44 (2009) 2, pp. 82-89

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Wealthification in the United States and Europe

West, Darrell M. - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 49 (2014) 5, pp. 295-296

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On the inequality and quality of measuring Europe’s inequality : reply to Martin Heidenreich and Marco Härpfer’s comment

Dauderstädt, Michael; Keltek, Cem - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 46 (2011) 2, pp. 109-110

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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...

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Inequality and Happiness : Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021

happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …

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