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education vouchers for economic growth and the evolution of income inequality. The results indicate that introducing education … vouchers can increase economic growth. Families that switch from public to private education due to vouchers experience higher …This paper uses a growth model with public and private education alternatives to investigate the implications of …
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Does redistribution increase inequality? Is inequality harmfiil for growth? Both questions have recently been addressed … in a number of single-tax models. In this paper, I examine the relationship between policy, growth and inequality when …. Redistributive labor income taxation has a negative impact on short- and long-run growth and inequality while capital taxation …
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Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio …-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are …-2011), we identify the causal effect of intergenerational mobility on household expenditure’s future growth. We find that …
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When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … income growth than the standard measure. We apply these measures to long-term income data from the United States and find … growth since 1980 than when keeping top groups fixed. For earlier historical periods, our analysis shows that choice of …
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This paper analyzes the impact of the composition of taxes on economic growth using a panel of OECD countries. In … contrast to Kneller et al. (Fiscal policy and growth: evidence from OECD countries, 1999), over 1980-2005 distortionary … taxation did not reduce growth, while an increase in non-distortionary taxation had a negative association with growth. When …
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macroeconomic imbalances, high inflation, low growth, as well as low-quality public policies. When redistributive efforts are short … that reduce growth and thwart poverty reduction efforts. The argument of this paper is that there are various possible …
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Cross-country studies have found a negative relationship between income inequality and economic growth. The main …
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) income distribution dynamics, intergenerational community formation and growth. In a world in which redistributive policies … long run. -- growth ; Community formation ; human capital ; redistribution ; social mobility …
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Cross-country studies have found a negative relationship between income inequality and economic growth. The main … negative relationship between income inequality and growth. The same data-set is used to run structural estimations aimed at … testing several possible channels linking inequality to growth. Although the results are not as strong as in the case of the …
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While most cross-country studies find a negative relationship between income inequality and economic growth, studies … that use panel data suggest the presence of a positive relationship between inequality and growth. This paper uses a cross …-state panel for the U.S. to assess the relationship between inequality and growth. Using both standard fixed effects and GMM …
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