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This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the … inequality in a more general context. Thus, it is of paramount importance to use income data from a uniform accounting period in …
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are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …
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This paper explores the effect of personal income taxes on redistribution when labour supply reactions are taken into consideration. The results indicate that the classical non-behavioural results on redistribution are not necessarily satisfied in a more general behavioural framework. In this...
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sector and inequality of income rises with productivity. We show that the expected utility of all agents can fall while … for status and technology-induced rises in inequality. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 …
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Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), we found that on average over the period from 1989 to 2007, about one fifth of American households at a given point of time reported a wealth transfer and these accounted for quite a sizeable figure, about a quarter of their net worth. Over...
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This paper presents a general procedure for decomposing income inequality measures by income sources. The methods of … axiomatization by the potential of Hart and Mas-Colell remains valid in the presence of the domain restriction of inequality indices …
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This paper uses heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques to estimate the long-run effect of income inequality on … per-capita income for 46 countries over the period 1970–1995. We find that inequality has a negative long-run effect on …
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