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A fresh look at fiscal redistribution and inequality in the US across electoral cycles
Sala, Hector - 2018
The evolution of the ratio of direct taxation (characterized by progressive rates) over indirect and payroll taxation (characterized by flat rates) is examined together with its distributional consequences for the Bottom 50%, Middle 40% and Top 10% shares of income. Oscillations of this ratio...
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What is driving wealth inequality in the United States of America? : the role of productivity, taxation and skills
Ernst, Ekkehard; Langot, François; Merola, Rossana; … - 2024
Out of four major structural changes affecting the US economy - namely a rising share of skilled workers, skill-biased technological change, decreasing progressiveness of taxation and productivity slowdown - we show that the decline in productivity growth not only is the main driver of the...
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On the impact of income and policy shocks on consumption
Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Sgherri, Silvia - 2007
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Three essays in macroeconomic empirics and monetary theory
Zhu, Feng - 2004
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A fresh look at fiscal redistribution and inequality in the US across electoral cycles
Sala, Hector - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 81 (2019), pp. 195-206
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Using a SAM-based model to measure the distributional impacts of government policies
Santos, Susana - 2009
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Shocks, frictions, and inequality in US business cycles
Bayer, Christian; Born, Benjamin; Luetticke, Ralph - 2020
How much does inequality matter for the business cycle and vice versa? Using a Bayesian likelihood approach, we … income risk and taxes. We find that adding data on inequality does not materially change the estimated shocks and frictions … income inequality. The systematic components of monetary and fiscal policy are important for inequality as well. …
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Shocks, frictions, and inequality in US business cycles
Bayer, Christian; Born, Benjamin; Luetticke, Ralph - 2020
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Aspirations and inequality
Génicot, Garance; Ray, Debraj - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 85 (2017) 2, pp. 489-519
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Accelerated technological progress : an explanation for wage dispersion and a possible solution to the productivity paradox
Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007
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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