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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979-2007
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … 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 to 41% if we take into account behavioral …
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Health Insurance Tax Credits, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Health Insurance Coverage of Single Mothers
Cebi, Merve; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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Federal Income Tax Revenue Volatility Since 1966
Dauchy, Estelle P.; Balding, Christopher - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2013
Over the past two decades, the United States federal income tax revenue has shown periods of increased volatility. Throughout the 1990s the growth rate of individual income taxes was between 5 and 10 percent, it has swung between H12 and +12 percent from 2000 to 2006. Meanwhile wage income has...
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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 …
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The weightless economy in economic development
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...
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Does globalization create superstars? A simple theory of managerial wages
Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - In: European Economic Review 71 (2014) C, pp. 34-51
To examine the impact of globalization on managerial remuneration, we consider a matching model where firms compete both in the product market and in the managerial market. We show that globalization, i.e., the simultaneous integration of product markets and managerial pools, leads to an...
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Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music,
Connolly, Marie; Krueger, Alan - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2005
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The Effect of Superstar Software on Hardware Sales in System Markets
Binken, J.L.G.; Stremersch, S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008
only lasts for 5 months, and make, if need be, side-payments to software firms, as superstars dramatically increase … hardware sales. Obtaining exclusivity over superstars, by hardware firms, does not provide an extra boost to their own sales …
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Extraordinary Wealth, Globalization, and Corruption
Torgler, Benno; Piatti, Marco - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2009
The billionaires of the world attract significant attention from the media and the public. The popular press is full of books selling formulas on how to become rich. Surprisingly, only a limited number of studies have explored empirically the determinants of extraordinary wealth. Using a large...
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Why Are Migrants Paid More?
Bryson, Alex; Rossi, Giambattista; Simmons, Rob - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
In efficient global labour markets for very high wage workers one might expect wage differentials between migrant and domestic workers to reflect differences in labour productivity. However, using panel data on worker-firm matches in a single industry over a seven year period we find a...
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