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Taxing the Poor : Income Averaging Reconsidered
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This Article presents an original empirical analysis demonstrating that low-income families experience far greater income fluctuations than higher-income families and, as a result, taxation of annual income disproportionately burdens low-income families. The author proposes two simple income...
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Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and the CARES Act on earnings and inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias; Forsythe, Eliza - 2020
Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we show that the Covid-19 pandemic led to a loss of aggregate real labor earnings of more than $250 billion between March and July 2020. By exploiting the panel structure of the CPS, we show that the decline in aggregate earnings was entirely...
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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the CARES Act on earnings and inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias; Forsythe, Eliza - 2020
Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we show that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a loss of aggregate real labor earnings of more than $250 billion between March and July 2020. By exploiting the panel structure of the CPS, we show that the decline in aggregate earnings was entirely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284653
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Income and Wealth Distribution : Overlooked Basics
Stern, Monte - 2016
This article reviews the distribution of income and wealth in the US from three basic perspectives that tend to be otherwise overlooked if the subject is framed primarily on the basis of the gross statistics: a) quantity and quality of work effort; b) quantity and quality of capital...
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Combating Inequality : The Between- and Within-Group Effects of Unionization on Earnings for People with Different Disabilities
Pettinicchio, David - 2020
This paper addresses whether and how unions help to dismantle workplace inequality experienced by people with different types of disabilities. Using pooled 2009-2018 CPS MORG data of 630,799 respondents covering almost a decade, we find that union membership is especially beneficial for people...
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Confronting the Endogeneity of Economy, Policy, and Politics : Inequality & Unemployment, Redistribution & Social Insurance, and Political Participation
Franzese, Robert J.; Hays, Jude C. - 2014
Conflicts of interest over the generosity and structure of redistribution and social insurance (jointly: social policy) include that between the relatively poor and wealthy - which yields the familiar result that median-voter demand for broad redistribution increases in the income skew - and...
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William - 2012
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112981
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William - 2016
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006909
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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The impact of labor market reforms on income inequality : evidence from the German Hartz reforms
Immel, Lea - 2021
In this paper, I study the distributional consequences of the German Hartz reforms, a set of four comprehensive labor … were affected by the reforms to estimate the causal effect of the Hartz reforms on income inequality. My results suggest … that the Hartz reforms have led to a small increase in income inequality. Testing for potential transmission channels, I …
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