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Equality of opportunity and the distribution of long-run income in Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Roemer, John E. - 2011
what extent is existing income inequality due to circumstances, as opposed to 'effort'? Our results suggest that several … circumstances, importantly both parental income and own IQ, are important for long-run income inequality, but that variations in … individual effort account for the most part of that inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274702
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Equality of Opportunity and the Distribution of Long-Run Income in Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Roemer, John E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
what extent is existing income inequality due to circumstances, as opposed to 'effort'? Our results suggest that several … circumstances, importantly both parental income and own IQ, are important for long-run income inequality, but that variations in … individual effort account for the most part of that inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836680
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Dynamics of capital accumulation in the US : simulations after Piketty
De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E. - 2015
utility function whose arguments are consumption and investment. They desire to accumulate wealth for its own sake - this is …We calibrate a sequence of four nested models to study the dynamics of wealth accumulation. Individuals maximize a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515458
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The dynamics of capital accumulation in the US : simulations after Piketty
De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302291
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The dynamics of capital accumulation in the US : simulations after Piketty
De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312356
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An allegory of the political influence of the top 1 %
De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E. - In: Business and politics : B&P 18 (2016) 1, pp. 85-96
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507419
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An Allegory of the Political Influence of the Top 1%
De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E. - 2021
We study how rich shareholders can use their economic power to deregulate firms that they own, thus skewing the income distribution towards themselves. Agents differ in productivity and choose how much labor to supply. High productivity agents also own shares in the productive sector and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315687
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The dynamics of capital accumulation in the US : simulations after piketty
De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E. - In: Journal of economic inequality 15 (2017) 2, pp. 121-141
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Inequality and Tax Policy
hassett, kevin allen; Hubbard, R. Glenn; Mankiw, N. Gregory - American Enterprise Institute
about inequality in the U.S. tax system. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842143
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Inequality and Tax Policy
hassett, kevin allen; Hubbard, R. Glenn; Auerbach, Alan J. - American Enterprise Institute
about inequality in the U.S. tax system. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204400