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Richer or More Numerous or Both? The Role of Population and Economic Growth for Top Income Shares
Krolage, Carla - 2019
When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is important. This paper presents three alternative measures of top income shares that more explicitly account for population and income growth than the standard measure. We apply these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892200
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Richer or more numerous or both? : the role of population and economic growth for top income shares
Krolage, Carla; Peichl, Andreas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2018
When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is important. This paper presents three alternative measures of top income shares that more explicitly account for population and income growth than the standard measure. We apply these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011939792
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194263
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Will China's Demographic Transition Exacerbate its Income Inequality? A CGE Modeling with Top-Down Microsimulation
Wang, Xinxin - 2016
Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging trend throughout the developing world, and it is especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than have most industrial economies. This paper quantifies the distributional effects in the context...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981982
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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013
The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation, featuring dynamic complementarities in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732726
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Anatomy of income inequality in the United States : 1979-2013
Hadavand, Aboozar - 2017
This paper provides a novel analysis of the trend in income inequality in the United States between 1979-2013. There are two ways in which this paper contributes to the literature. First, I analyze how much of the existing inequality in the U.S. is due to the demographic changes that happened...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628403
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Dreaming of a brighter future? : the impact of economic vulnerability on university aspirations
Watson, Barry; Kong, Nancy; Phipps, Shelley A. - 2022
aspirations for youth age 12-15 in economically vulnerable households. Using a unique Canadian dataset (2002-2008), we find that … poverty is associated with reduced university aspirations from the perspective of the youth and their mother. Further, poverty … not associated with educational aspirations, and this result persists regardless of how we measure insecurity. Controls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367614
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Do Taxes Increase Economic Inequality? A Comparative Study Based on the State Personal Income Tax
Troiano, Ugo - 2017
I present new quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between tax policies and the distribution of income. I focus on twentieth century United States, and on the personal income tax, since its inception. I study three major policy events that, as the existing literature shows,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940822
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Three Centuries of Inequality in Britain and America
Lindert, Peter H.; Raymond, Donna Wills - 2000
Income and wealth inequality rose over the first 150 years of U.S. history. They may have risen at times in Britain before 1875. The first half of this century equalized pre-fisc incomes more in Britain than in America. From the 1970s to the 1990s inequality rose in both countries, reversing...
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Chapter 3 Three centuries of inequality in Britain and America
Lindert, Peter H. - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 167-216). 2000
Income and wealth inequality rose over the first 150 years of US history. They rose in Britain before 1875, especially 1740–1810. The first half of the 20th century equalized pre-fisc incomes both in Britain and in America. From the 1970s to the 1990s inequality rose in both countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024206