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The Inequality Barometer is an online survey first conducted in Germany in 2020. It gauges individual perceptions of … multiple aspects of inequality and social mobility as well as a range of policy preferences related to inequality. Responses … inequality and social mobility. In sum, we find that respondents underestimate the extent of inequality in important ways, which …
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The distributional impact of proposed reforms plays a central role in public debates around tax and transfer policy. We show that accounting for realistic patterns of mobility in employment, earnings and household circumstances over the life-cycle greatly affects our assessment of the...
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This paper examines the distributional impact of increases to out-of-work transfers, increases to work-contingent transfers, and increases in higher rates of income tax over the whole of life. We find that, in contrast to what is implied by standard snapshot analyses, increases to...
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This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities in income and educational mobility in both countries....
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Concerns about widening inequality have increased attention on the topic of equality of opportunities and …
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and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across countries during this period: the US and … cross-cohort income inequality, were the primary driver of differing mobility rates across countries. We also demonstrate …
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