The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use detailed micro level information to construct quarterly historical measures of inequality from 1969 to 2012. We investigate whether monetary policy shocks played a role in explaining...

Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per cent between 2007 and 2012, as a result of the bursting of a remarkable property bubble, an exceptionally severe banking crisis, and deep fiscal adjustment. This paper examines...

The Peruvian economy has exhibited remarkable growth in the past 20 years. Good tax and monetary policies, along with comprehensive structural adjustment, which has attracted substantial foreign investment, are regarded as the pillars of this success. Notwithstanding the advances experienced on...

Im Mai 2001 wurde die Rentenreform der Bundesregierung endgültig verabschiedet. Zentrale Elemente der Reform sind eine neue Rentenanpassungsformel und der Einstieg in eine staatlich geförderte kapitalgedeckte private Vorsorge. In der Studie der Prognos AG werden die langfristigen Auswirkungen...

Die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung hat die Prognos AG beauftragt, verschiedene Alternativen zur Umfinanzierung der Alterssicherung zu untersuchen. Der Untersuchungsauftrag umfasst insgesamt fünf Finanzierungsvarianten, die ausgehend von einer Referenzrechnung auf der Basis geltenden Rechts jeweils...

We analyze the macroeconomic implications of increasing the top marginal income tax rate using a dynamic general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous agents and a fiscal structure resembling the actual U.S. tax system. The wealth and income distributions generated by our model replicate the...