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national income (or wealth) appropriated by the same income group. In turn, we develop the Fiscal Inequality Coefficient which …
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learning model with the theory of rational inattention introduced by Sims (2006). In the model firms optimally allocate …
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Recent theoretical and empirical work characterizes attention as a limited resource that decision-makers strategically allocate. There has been less research on the dynamic interdependence of attention: how paying attention now may affect performance later. In this paper, we exploit...
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Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational inattention framework and obtain a closed-form expression for a migration gravity equation that we bring to the data. The model predicts that ows from countries with a higher cost...
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than at the bottom. Despite this, inequality in market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient increased over the …
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The evolution of the ratio of direct taxation (characterized by progressive rates) over indirect and payroll taxation (characterized by flat rates) is examined together with its distributional consequences for the Bottom 50%, Middle 40% and Top 10% shares of income. Oscillations of this ratio...
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national income (or wealth) appropriated by the same income group. In turn, we develop the Fiscal Inequality Coefficient which …
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The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality …., 2017), the overall change in income inequality is decomposed into parts attributable to the change in market income … inequality, changes in discretionary tax-benefit policy and automatic stabilisation effects. We implement this approach using the …
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of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct …
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Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …
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