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absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …
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We propose a market-for-offenses model of property crime, which explicitly accounts for protection expenditures among heterogeneous individuals. The crime equilibrium is modeled as a free-access equilibrium in which the match between criminals and victims equates the average returns to crime. We...
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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 …
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The academic literature on equality of opportunity has burgeoned. More recently, the concepts and measures have begun … advantage of focusing on equality of opportunity is that policy makers are more responsive to that discourse than on equality of … outcomes per se. This paper presents a critique of equality of opportunity in the policy context. While the empirical analysis …
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This Paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist … Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of … integration in the late 1990s. Regional inequality in China in 1999 exceeds the level experienced at its peak in the Cultural …
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inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping …
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We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from which outsiders are excluded. We formulate the...
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This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …
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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 …
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Disposable income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient and using Family Budget Survey data, increased very … analysis of changes in the channels of redistribution and a Gini decomposition. We find that the sizeable increase in overall … inequality due to changes in the wage earnings component is mitigated by changes in the tax and transfer components in both …
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