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Choosing the right parents : changes in the intergenerational transmission of inequality - between 1980 and the early 1990s
Levine, David I. (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001697071
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Revised estimates of intergenerational income mobility in the United States
Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920632
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The growing importance of family and community : an analysis of changes in the sibling correlation in earnings
Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers' earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920916
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Should we teach old dogs new tricks? : The impact of community college retraining on older displaced workers
Jacobson, Louis S. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
less than those reported for schooling of children. However, our internal rate of return estimates are very sensitive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920927
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Estimating the returns to community college schooling for displaced workers
Jacobsen, Louis (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001761397
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Maternal employment and overweight children
Anderson, Patricia M. (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001697106
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Taxes, Status Goods, and Piracy
Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416119
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The Efficient Side of Progressive Income Taxation
Corneo, Giacomo - CESifo - 2000
This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406276
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A Complete and Strongly Anonymous Leximin Relation on Infinite Streams
Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - CESifo - 2011
Various extensions of the leximin order to the infinite dimensional setting have been suggested. They relax completeness and strong anonymity. Instead, by removing sensitivity to generations at infinite rank this paper defines a complete and strongly anonymous leximin relation on infinite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294098
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Justifying Social Discounting: The Rank-Discounted Utilitarian Approach
Zuber, Stéphane; Asheim, Geir B. - CESifo - 2010
The discounted utilitarian criterion for infinite horizon social choice has been criticized for treating generations unequally. We propose an extended rank-discounted utilitarian (ERDU) criterion instead. The criterion amounts to discounted utilitarianism on non-decreasing streams, but it treats...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671700