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recovery (itself driven by changes in capital policies since the world wars) and by the slowdown of productivity and population …-income ratio β is about 300% if g= 3% and 600% if g= 1.5%. Our results have important implications for capital taxation and … regulation and shed new light on the changing nature of wealth, the shape of the production function, and the rise of capital …
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arguments of the book will be simplified in the telling and retelling. In the case of my book <em>Capital in the Twenty …-First Century</em> (2014), a common simplification of the main theme is that because the rate of return on capital <em … inequality. Second, I briefly describe my multidimensional approach to the history of capital and inequality. Third, I review the …
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This paper evaluates the prospects for income tax reform in China during the coming decade (with a comparison to India), and argues that such reforms should rank high on the policy agenda in these two countries. Due to high average income growth and sharply rising top income shares during the...
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the long run, and the secular decline in income inequality is for the most part a capital income phenomenon. Holders of … these shocks, probably because of the dynamic effects of progressive taxation on capital accumulation and pre-tax income …
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of income and wealth, we show that top wealth holders are almost exclusively top capital earners, and less and less are …
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decades, because the usual tax-based series miss a rising part of capital income. Growth incidence curves look dramatically …
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This paper attempts to document and account for the long run evolution of inheritance. We find that in a country like France the annual flow of inheritance was about 20%-25% of national income between 1820 and 1910, down to less than 5% in 1950, and back up to about 15% by 2010. A simple...
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