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We consider a setup in which infinitely lived households face idiosyncratic investment risk and show that in this case the equilibrium distribution of wealth becomes increasingly right-skewed over time until wealth concentrates entirely at the top. The households in our setup are identical in...
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level of interest rate but is more inequality reducing. By taking into account different assets returns and unequal access … to them, we find that the PAYG pension system generates lower level of interest rate and increases wealth inequality. By … using Matsuyama's (2000) technology that generates dynamic endogenous inequality, we represent the bequest and saving …
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We explore the accumulation of assets in the presence of limited insurance against idiosyncratic shocks, borrowing constraints and endogenous labor productivity due to the so-called "nutrition curve". We show that in such an environment, any stationary equilibrium is characterized by a polarized...
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over the period 1967-1996. We then use the estimated parameter values to decompose inequality in all variables of interest …
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moments of the data over the lifecycle. The key challenge for the model is to generate declining inequality in annual hours … observed cross-sectional inequality in labor supply and consumption and may have quantitative relevance for analyses that …
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All popular schools lack a consistent profit theory. Economists have no true conception of the most important … distribution are wrong by logical implication. If the conclusions of a theory do not find any counterpart in reality the fault lies … in the premises. In order to rectify distribution theory it is necessary to substitute the conventional subjective …
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economic factors on inequality in the long run, we use the concept of an equilibrium distribution. However the long …
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outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …
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In this article we quantify the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of two revenue neutral flat-tax reforms using a model economy that replicates the U.S. distributions of earnings, income and wealth in very much detail. We find that the less progressive reform brings about a 2.4%...
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inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …
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