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This paper uses a growth model with public and private education alternatives to investigate the implications of … 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 …
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focuses on neoclassical growth in order to ensure tractability in identifying a steady state. The steady state income … distribution is found to be bimodal. Public education offers higher growth to the poor in the transition to the steady state …
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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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A controversial new financing phenomenon has recently emerged. New “income share agreements” (“ISAs”) enable an individual to raise funds by pledging a percentage of her future earnings to investors for a certain number of years. These contracts, which have been offered by entities such...
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growth dynamics. We find multiple politico-economic regimes where the pressure for redistribution is highly non …
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The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...
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The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324245
real capital. An important prerequisite for a sustainable growth process is the efficient design of the social security …
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