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The distribution of human capital and income lies at the center of a nexus of forces that shape a country's economic, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyze these interactions and their growth consequences. Five main issues are addressed. First, I...
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relationship between the political influence of the two groups and the level of taxation, public investment, redistribution of …
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Is inequality harmful for growth? We suggest that it is. To summarize our main argument: in a society where distributional conflict is more important, political decisions are more likely to produce economic policies that allow private individuals to appropriate less of the returns to growth...
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redistribution. Approximately 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive, customized information on U …
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redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens …
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skills or not. The government influences individual decision-making by redistribution of income or by subsidizing investment …
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The relationship between the degree of inequality and the demand for redistribution has been a central question in … gap between the income of the average and the median voter, should lead to increased demand for redistribution, as … demand for redistribution. Part of the explanation of this puzzle lies in the realization that it is not only (or even mainly …
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enforcement. Optimal enforcement strategies are developed for both the anti-discrimination and the earnings redistribution models … redistribution model …
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The purpose of the present note is to explore the structure of optimal income taxation/redistribution in an economy …, of course, an additional incentive for income redistribution from wealthy to poor citizens is created and the logical …
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We study how monetary policy affects the asymmetric effects of globalization. To this end, we build an open-economy heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian model (HANK), in which households differ in their income, wealth, and real and financial integration with international markets. We use the model...
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