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So close yet so unequal : reconsidering spatial inequality in U.S. cities
Andreoli, Francesco; Peluso, Eugenio - 2017 - Preliminary version: February 2, 2017
Spatial income inequality in cities is assessed by looking at the distribution of income across individuals and their neighbors. Two new Gini-type spatial inequality indices are introduced: the first index measures the average degree of income inequality within individual neighborhoods; the...
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The economics of taxing net wealth : a survey of the issues
Schnellenbach, Jan - 2012
This paper surveys possible motivations for having a net wealth tax. After giving a short overview over the state of wealth taxation in OECD countries, we discuss both popular arguments for such a tax, as well as economic arguments. It is argued that classical normative principles of taxation...
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Reform Options for the Estate Tax System : Targeting Unearned Income, Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This testimony makes three main points. First, inheritances tend to exacerbate existing economic disparities and may be the most important barrier to intergenerational economic mobility. These tendencies are most pronounced at the top of the income distribution. While inherited income is...
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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States
Gradín, Carlos - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 17, pp. 1905-1920
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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States
Gradín, Carlos - 2017
We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … workers' characteristics, showing that gender differences cannot explain the levels of segregation/stratification in any year … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the …
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Energy prices, pass-through, and incidence in U.S. manufacturing
Ganapati, Sharat; Shapiro, Joseph S.; Walker, Reed - 2016
incidence of changes in input prices across industries, with consumers bearing a smaller share of the burden than standards …
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Neighborhood Racial and Ethnic Diversity in U.S. Cities
Nyden, Philip; Lukehart, John; Maly, Michael - 1999
The existence of racially and ethnically diverse urban neighborhoods is one of our Nation's best-kept secrets. Instead of telling about these places, the media regularly report on the continued legacy of racial and ethnic tensions in the United States. As the Nation is becoming more racially and...
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Density Zoning and Class Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Rothwell, Jonathan T.; Massey, Douglas S. - 2014
Objectives. Socioeconomic segregation rose substantially in U.S. cities during the final decades of the 20th century … segregation using the Gini Coefficient for neighborhood income inequality and the poor-affluent exposure index. These outcomes are … other metropolitan characteristics likely to affect urban housing markets and class segregation. Results. For both 2000 and …
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Tax changes and asset pricing
Sialm, Clemens - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1356-1383
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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This...
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