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by inequality, while decreases to the privately held portion of the public debt are likely to encounter resistance from …
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) and income inequality in the United States. Using panel cointegration techniques that allow for cross …-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous regressors, we find that the short-run effects of FDI on income inequality … negative effect on income inequality in the United States. This result for the United States as a whole does not imply that FDI …
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Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement …
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Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement …
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The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
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also a catalyst for rising wealth and income inequality, as monopolistic firms are able to suppress workers’ wages and … corporate concentration and to widening inequality among households. *** With the objective of leveling the playing field, our …
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This paper decomposes the rise in cross-sectional earnings inequality in Sweden between 1990 and 2002 into changes in … inequality is in both countries a consequence of rising upper tail dispersion. Contrary to the U.S. experience, where the rise is …
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Economic growth might both increase and decrease income inequality, depending on the circumstances. The nature of this … relationship matters at the city level as well. This paper examines the income-inequality relationship within U.S. metropolitan … over time. A higher per capita income level was associated with a lower within-MSA inequality level in earlier years, but …
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Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...
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