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While policymakers are rightly concerned about evidence of rising income concentration at the top, it is often wrongly assumed that the same rich individuals stay rich. In reality, the membership of this group are in a state of constant flux. This new study, based on more than 20 million tax...
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the United States. This increase is the result of the top 1% capturing a disproportionate share of overall income growth …
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This paper reviews the key issues concerning the impact of public spending and taxation on long-run growth and … government matters for long-term growth as a too large government may undermine growth through the cost of financing public … found to be more harmful for growth than consumption and property taxes. However, a tax shift from income towards …
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Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
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Malaysia has sustained over four decades of rapid, inclusive growth, reducing its dependence on agriculture and … economies, while poverty and income inequality have declined considerably. Growth has also been remarkably resilient in the face … policy. Further reforms are needed for Malaysia to become a high-income nation around 2020: productivity growth needs to be …
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The paper studies the impact of tax-benefit policies on the distribution of household incomes and work incentives in Estonia. It makes use of microsimulation modelling approach and applies the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to quantify the first-order effects of policy changes in 2016-2018 and of...
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China has made impressive strides in education in recent decades, even though the accumulation of human capital has lagged behind that of physical capital. Going forward, access to and quality of education will be key to sustain economic convergence with the most advanced economies and to offset...
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The unemployment rate among young people has reached painfully high levels, in particular among those young people with low levels of education. There are two crucial policy priorities to improve employment prospects for youth in Spain. First, in the very short term, there is need for quick...
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The labour market in Estonia is volatile, increasing the risk that groups with some obstacles to enter the labour market (youth, non-Estonian speakers and workers with no upper secondary graduation certificate) may become long-term unemployed, due to the aggravating skills mismatch in the wake...
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on the government’s ambition to secure strong and sustainable growth with rising living standards and equal opportunities …
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