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Inequality and Happiness : Are Europeans and Americans Different?

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

The answer to the question posed in the title is 'yes.' Using a total of 128,106 answers to a survey question about happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the US. There are two potential explanations. First,...

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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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Foreign Born Scientists : Mobility Patterns for Sixteen Countries

Franzoni, Chiara - 2014

We report results from the first systematic study of the mobility of scientists engaged in research in a large number of countries. Data were collected from 17,182 respondents using a web-based survey of corresponding authors in 16 countries in four fields during 2011. We find considerable...

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The Effects of Income Mobility and Tax Persistence on Income Redistribution and Inequality

Agranov, Marina - 2016

We explore the effect of income mobility and the persistence of redistributive tax policy on the level of redistribution in democratic societies. An infinite-horizon theoretical model is developed, and the properties of the equilibrium tax rate and the degree of after-tax inequality are...

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The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth

Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2010

This paper examines whether participation in religious or other social organizations can help offset the negative effects of growing up in a disadvantaged environment. Using the National Survey of Families and Households, we collect measures of disadvantage as well as parental involvement with...

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Global Wealth Inequality

Zucman, Gabriel - 2019

growing literature on wealth inequality across the world. Evidence points towards a rise in global wealth concentration: for …

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What Drove the Mass Migrations from Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

This paper examines the determinants of overseas mass migration from eleven European countries in the late 19th century … glut the age cohort most responsive to wage gaps between the labor-abundant Old World and the labor-scarce New World. The …

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Is the Mediterranean the New Rio Grande? Us and EU Immigration Pressures in the Long Run

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2016

How will worldwide changes in population affect pressures for international migration in the future? We contrast the … contribution of changes in relative labor-supply to bilateral migration in the 2000s and then apply this model to project future … markedly. Europe, in contrast, will face substantial demographically driven migration pressures from across the Mediterranean …

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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe

Alesina, Alberto - 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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The Opportunity Atlas : Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility

Chetty, Raj - 2018

We construct a public atlas of children's outcomes in adulthood by the Census tract in which they grew up using anonymized longitudinal data covering nearly the entire U.S. population. For each tract, we estimate children's earnings distributions, incarceration rates, and other out-comes in...

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