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Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession

Glover, Andrew S. - 2011

In this paper we construct a stochastic overlapping-generations general equilibrium model in which households are subject to aggregate shocks that affect both wages and asset prices. We use a calibrated version of the model to quantify how the welfare costs of severe recessions are distributed...

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Inflation as a Redistribution Shock : Effects on Aggregates and Welfare

Doepke, Matthias - 2010

to borrowers. In this study, we consider redistribution as a channel for aggregate and welfare effects of inflation. We …-generations model of the U.S. economy. While the redistribution shock is zero sum, households react asymmetrically, mostly because … increase in savings. Even though inflation-induced redistribution has a persistent negative effect on output, it improves the …

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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility, Inequality, and Growth

Owen, Ann L.; Weil, David N. - 2021

We examine a model in which per capita income, inequality, intergenerational mobility, and returns to education are all determined endogenously. Individuals earn wages depending on their ability, which is a random variable. They purchase an education with transfers received from their parents,...

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Redistributive Effects of Different Pension Systems When Longevity Varies by Socioeconomic Status

Sánchez-Romero, Miguel - 2019

We propose a general analytical framework to model the redistributive features of alternative pension systems when individuals face ex ante differences in mortality. Differences in life expectancy between high and low socioeconomic groups are often large and have widened recently in many...

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Redistributive Effects of Different Pension Systems When Longevity Varies by Socioeconomic Status

Sánchez-Romero, Miguel - 2019

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Generational Accounts, Aggregate Saving and Intergenerational Distribution

Buiter, Willem H. - 2021

(re-)distribution associated with the government's provision of public goods and services. Third, generational accounting …

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Intergenerational Redistribution with Short-Lived Governments

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021

We study the politics of intergenerational redistribution in an overlapping generations model with short …

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The Politics of Intergenerational Redistribution

Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2021

second generation. The paper characterizes the determinants of the equilibrium intergenerational redistribution carried out … redistribution. The key features of the model are heterogeneity within each generation and altruism across generations …

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Finite Lifetimes and Growth

Jones, Larry E. - 2010

, while for sufficiently high rates it is negative. Additionally, income redistribution to the young will normally have …

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High Marginal Tax Rates on the Top 1%? Lessons from a Life Cycle Model with Idiosyncratic Income Risk

Kindermann, Fabian - 2014

fiscal policies that achieve a desired degree of redistribution in society. We find that marginal tax rates on the top 1% of …

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