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This paper studies how tax-and-transfer progressivity influences aggregate fluctuations when interacting with household heterogeneity. Using a simple static model of the extensive margin labor supply, we analytically characterize how a degree of progressivity influences differential labor supply...
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attributable to larger Covid-era stimulus payments and unemployment insurance …
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attributable to larger Covid-era stimulus payments and unemployment insurance …
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The authors set up a political economy equilibrium framework for personal income distribution. Located in status theory, their concept is able to explain what justifies a certain or optimal degree of inequality in the society. The authors present an empirical analysis of personal income...
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analyze changes in program enrollment over the past two decades, quantifying the contributions of unemployment and state … in unemployment raises enrollment by 15 percent. Unemployment explains most of the decrease in enrollment in the late … 1990s, state policy changes explain more of the increase in enrollment in the early 2000s, and unemployment explains most …
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redistribution and a modest effect of two year led inequality …
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We use a quantitative heterogeneous agent model with nominal rigidities and unemployment risk to analyze the …-sectional incidence of unemployment risk over the business cycle. We consider three fiscal stabilization packages: (i) a transfer to all … low-income households, (ii) an increase in unemployment benefits to unemployed households, and (iii) an increase in labor …
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-to-job transitions, while negative shocks occasionally throw them back into unemployment. The state of the economy includes the … to mimic the US Great Recession unemployment dynamics, firms reduce hiring, causing the job ladder to all but "stop …
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We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...
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We investigate cyclicality of variance and skewness of household labor income risk using PSID data. There are five main findings. First, we find that head's labor income exhibits countercyclical variance and procyclical skewness. Second, the cyclicality of hourly wages is muted, suggesting that...
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