consequences of income inequality. Economists are prone to similar, although more reasoned and empirically based, debates. This … book is a curated collection of essays that explore a wide range of viewpoints about income inequality in the United States …. Neither income nor income inequality is easily measured and, consequently, economists have different views about what is the …

"The book is the Europe volume in an international series on income, wealth, consumption, well-being and inequality. It …

This thesis consists of three essays on dynamic household decisions over the life cycle and the estimation of … parameters for the analysis. The topics include the estimation of income processes and progressive tax and transfer schedules in … Lebenszyklus und der Schätzung von Parametern für die Analyse beschäftigen. Zu den behandelten Themen gehören die Schätzung von …

The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as …-first century. The authors show that in the US, trends are highlighted in terms of wealth holdings, among the low-income population … to improve among low-income families and that the racial wealth gap widened during the late 1980s …