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Relative Wage Movements and the Distribution of Consumption

Attanasio, Orazio - 2010

We analyze how relative wage movements across birth cohorts and education groups during the 1980s affected the distribution of household consumption. The analysis integrates the labor economics literature on time variation in the wage structure with the consumption insurance literature. In...

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Innocent Bystanders? Monetary Policy and Inequality in the U.S

Coibion, Olivier - 2012

We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total income, consumption and total expenditures....

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Who Receives Medicaid in Old Age? Rules and Reality

Borella, Margherita - 2016

Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance to the old who are sick and have little assets and income compared to their medical needs. Thus, it explicitly tests for income, assets, and health or medical needs to determine eligibility. We ask how these rules map into the...

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Unequal We Stand : An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in the United States, 1967-2006

Heathcote, Jonathan - 2010

limited both the level and growth of consumption inequality …

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Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades : A Tale of Two Countries

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2010

over the same period. These trends occured against the backdrop of lower trend growth of earnings, incomes and consumption …

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Lifetime Incomes in the United States Over Six Decades

Guvenen, Fatih - 2017

Using panel data on individual labor income histories from 1957 to 2013, we document two empirical facts about the distribution of lifetime income in the United States. First, from the cohort that entered the labor market in 1967 to the cohort that entered in 1983, median lifetime income of men...

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Consumption Inequality and the Frequency of Purchases

Coibion, Olivier - 2017

We document a decline in the frequency of shopping trips in the U.S. since 1980 and consider its implications for the measurement of consumption inequality. A decline in shopping frequency as households stock up on storable goods (i.e. inventory behavior) will lead to a rise in expenditure...

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Mismatch and Assimilation

Wang, Ping - 2018

growth that depends critically on the assimilation ability and the factor input mismatch. Our baseline model accounts for 80 … ability account for 41% and 20% of the global growth variation, whereas physical capital accounts for about one third with … human capital largely inconsequential. In particular, about 30% of the output growth in miracle Asian economies comes from …

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The Race between Demand and Supply : Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality

Heckman, James J. - 2019

Understanding inequality and devising policies to alleviate it was a central focus of Jan Tinbergen's lifetime research. He was far ahead of his time in many aspects of his work. This essay places his work in the perspective of research on inequality in his time and now, focusing on his studies...

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Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality

Putterman, Louis - 2010

We construct a matrix showing the share of the year 2000 population in every country that is descended from people in different source countries in the year 1500. Using this matrix, we analyze how post-1500 migration has influenced the level of GDP per capita and within-country income inequality...

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