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A Quantitative Framework for Analyzing the Distributional Effects of Incentive Schemes

Macartney, Hugh; McMillan, Robert; Petronijevic, Uros - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper develops the first quantitative framework for analyzing distributional effects of incentive schemes in public education. The analysis is built around a hump-shaped effort function, estimated semi-parametrically using exogenous incentive variation and rich administrative data. We...

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Business Incomes at the Top

Kopczuk, Wojciech - 2020

Business income constitutes a large and increasing share of income and wealth at the top of the distribution. We discuss how tax policy treats and shapes how businesses are organized and how they distribute economic gains to owners, with the focus on closely-held and pass-through firms. These...

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The Increase in Income Cyclicality of High-Income Households and its Relation to the Rise in Top Income Shares

Parker, Jonathan A. - 2010

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Technological Change and the Growing Inequality in Managerial Compensation

Lustig, Hanno - 2009

characterize the optimal managerial compensation contract when firms accumulate organizational capital but risk-averse managers …

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Wall Street and Main Street : What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?

Kaplan, Steven N. - 2007

We consider how much of the top end of the income distribution can be attributed to four sectors -- top executives of non-financial firms (Main Street); financial service sector employees from investment banks, hedge funds, private equity funds, and mutual funds (Wall Street); corporate lawyers;...

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Family Descent as a Signal of Managerial Quality : Evidence from Mutual Funds

Chuprinin, Oleg - 2016

We study the relation between mutual fund managers' family backgrounds and their professional performance. Using hand …-collected data from individual Census records on the wealth and income of managers' parents, we find that managers from poor families … deliver higher alphas than managers from rich families. This result is robust to alternative measures of fund performance …

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The Dynamics of Inequality

Gabaix, Xavier - 2015

in top income inequality is driven by the rise of "superstar" entrepreneurs or managers …

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Top Incomes in Canada : Evidence from the Census

Lemieux, Thomas - 2015

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Wealth inequality and collective action

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