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Inequality, life expectancy, and the intragenerational redistribution puzzle - some experimental evidence
Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022
In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174148
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Child labor and the education of a society
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2001
We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The existence of multiple steady states is established, including a poverty trap, wherein children work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403095
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Inequality, life expectancy, and the intragenerational redistribution puzzle : some experimental evidence
Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022
In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184496
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Inequality and poverty in the United States : public policies for inclusive growth
Denk, Oliver; Hagemann, Robert P.; Lenain, Patrick; … - 2013
addition, taxes and transfers contribute less to income redistribution than in other OECD countries. If well designed, reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767746
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The Village of Billionaires : Fair Taxation and Redistribution Amid Relative and Absolute Poverty
Brassey, Alexis - 2020
Tax justice and principles underpinning the international tax regime are in vogue. The idea that companies and individuals need to pay their "fair share", not just in the domestic sense but also the international sense, is now a mainstream position. This paper explores the problems relating to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828633
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Inequality and Poverty in the United States : Public Policies for Inclusive Growth
Lenain, Patrick - 2013
addition, taxes and transfers contribute less to income redistribution than in other OECD countries. If well designed, reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156732
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century : A Critique of Thomas Piketty's Political Economy
Potter, Michael J - 2015
The argument by Piketty and others that there is growing inequality and this is causing damage is not new. But regardless of who is running this argument, it is significantly flawed. The poor have definitely improved their situation, especially if taxes and income support are included, in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030653
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Endowment and Inequality
Shaviro, Daniel - 2009
Neither income, consumption, nor wealth is an "ideal" tax base, or one that plausibly identifies what one really should want to tax. Rather, they are best justified as imperfect stand-ins for some underlying (but unobservable) metric of inequality that may be relevant to distributive justice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183710
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On the importance of fertility behavior in school finance policy design
Yılmaz, Kuzey - 2014
To design an optimal education policy, it is essential to account for the fertility differential between the poor and the rich because it affects the human capital investment through the child quantity-quality tradeoff of children. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium in which parents choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241308
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Optimal Level of Government Debt - Matching Wealth Inequality and the Fiscal Sector
Vogel, Edgar - 2014
We calibrate an incomplete markets large scale OLG model to the US income and wealth distribution and examine the effects of alternative government debt levels and adjustment policies on macroeconomic aggregates and welfare. We find that the government should hold negative debt. Due to the high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056838