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level of interest rate but is more inequality reducing. By taking into account different assets returns and unequal access … to them, we find that the PAYG pension system generates lower level of interest rate and increases wealth inequality. By … using Matsuyama's (2000) technology that generates dynamic endogenous inequality, we represent the bequest and saving …
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We consider a setup in which infinitely lived households face idiosyncratic investment risk and show that in this case the equilibrium distribution of wealth becomes increasingly right-skewed over time until wealth concentrates entirely at the top. The households in our setup are identical in...
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We explore the accumulation of assets in the presence of limited insurance against idiosyncratic shocks, borrowing constraints and endogenous labor productivity due to the so-called "nutrition curve". We show that in such an environment, any stationary equilibrium is characterized by a polarized...
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over the period 1967-1996. We then use the estimated parameter values to decompose inequality in all variables of interest …
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moments of the data over the lifecycle. The key challenge for the model is to generate declining inequality in annual hours … observed cross-sectional inequality in labor supply and consumption and may have quantitative relevance for analyses that …
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inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …
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The theme of the relationship between inequality and economic growth has gained considerable attention among economists … over the last two decades. In this paper, we analyse the effect of inequality on growth, whose related literature has been … the inequality-growth relationship, but also to achieve a better understanding of the nature of this relationship and the …
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inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …
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The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...
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