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Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility

Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2019

We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the...

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Modelling the distributional effects of the cost-of-living crisis in Turkey and the South Caucasus : a microsimulation analysis

Can, Zeynep Gizem; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Sologon, Denisa M.; … - 2023

This study addresses the different distributional and welfare implications of price volatility amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, focusing on both Turkey and the South Caucasus region, which have different welfare regimes and patterns of price changes. This paper explores the impact of...

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Redistribution, horizontal inequity, and reranking: direct taxation in the UK, 1977-2020

Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2023

We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such application to the UK, and using yearly data covering 1977-2020, we find that redistributive...

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Child labor and the education of a society

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2001

We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The existence of multiple steady states is established, including a poverty trap, wherein children work...

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The Scandinavian fantasy : the sources of intergenerational mobility in Denmark and the U.S.

Landersø, Rasmus; Heckman, James J. - 2016

This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities in income and educational mobility in both countries....

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In praise of snapshots

Kanbur, Ravi - 2019

many an argument for shifting the focus from income redistribution, which is said to equalize outcomes, to equalizing … redistribution can itself improve mobility even if that is the only objective. The paper thus speaks in praise of snapshots. …

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Redistribution policy and inequality reduction in OECD countries : what has changed in two decades?

Immervoll, Herwig; Richardson, Linda - 2011

We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or … redistribution systems in place, greater inequality automatically leads to more redistribution, even if no policy action is taken. We … redistribution. Between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, the redistributive strength of tax-benefit systems then weakened in many …

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Mobility, taxation and welfare

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2011

Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare analysis of mobility often fails, however, to account for the cost of the variability of periodic incomes around permanent incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of...

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