inequality over time, meaning that discrimination or other unobserved factors have become more-substantial determinants of …

deficits, but by 2011 had come to feel constrained by inherited debt to withdraw fiscal stimulus. Chile has achieved … so. Chile has a rule that targets a structural budget balance. But rules are not credible by themselves. In Europe and … the U.S., official forecasts are overly optimistic in booms; so revenue is spent rather than saved. Chile avoids such …

Using data from NLSY97 we analyze the impact of education on health behavior. Controlling for health knowledge does not …

New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited … commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that … "knowledge filter" between new knowledge and economic knowledge and identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the …

reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation … transition until 2080. If policy aims at reducing the inequality of lifetime income among people of the same generation … to compensate its costs. -- Early education ; demographic change ; inequality over the life span ; redistributive policy …

This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

approach. The LIS database is used to compare the approaches using an analysis of the changing contributions to inequality in …

Although income inequality has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of … sensitivity analysis indicates that virtually all of the decline in measured inequality when moving from money income to extended … measured inequality is insensitive to the correlation between money and household production income. The practical importance …