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Controversies about the Rise in American Inequality: A Survey
Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately …: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill …-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes; consumption inequality; geographical inequality; and international differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123580
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What is the Domain of the Welfare State?
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788942
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The Distributional Consequences of Russia's Transition
Doyle, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498039
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The New Stylized Facts About Income and Subjective Well-Being
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083711
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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
The "Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society’s economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667028
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The Role of Government in Work and Welfare
Keating, M. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998
Societies typically have three objectives for work and welfare: sustained income/economic growth per capita, employment growth (and job security?), a just distribution of income along with access to certain basic services. There may be tensions between these objectives. This paper tries to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971340
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A Cautionary Note on Using Industry Affiliation to Predict Income
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Schwandt, Hannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular industry affiliation as an instrument for income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083623
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Capital Taxation under Political Constraints
Scheuer, Florian; Wolitzky, Alexander - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies optimal dynamic tax policy under the threat of political reform. A policy will be reformed ex post if a large enough political coalition supports reform; thus, sustainable policies are those that will continue to attract enough political support in the future. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168909
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How Elastic are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments
Kuziemko, Ilyana; Norton, Michael I; Saez, Emmanuel; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of information about inequality and taxes on preferences for redistribution using … interactive information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax …. We find that the informational treatment has very large effects on whether respondents view inequality as an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084154
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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136431