Does redistribution increase inequality? Is inequality harmfiil for growth? Both questions have recently been addressed … in a number of single-tax models. In this paper, I examine the relationship between policy, growth and inequality when …. Redistributive labor income taxation has a negative impact on short- and long-run growth and inequality while capital taxation …

real capital. An important prerequisite for a sustainable growth process is the efficient design of the social security …

Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio …-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are …-2011), we identify the causal effect of intergenerational mobility on household expenditure’s future growth. We find that …

When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … income growth than the standard measure. We apply these measures to long-term income data from the United States and find … growth since 1980 than when keeping top groups fixed. For earlier historical periods, our analysis shows that choice of …

This paper examines the problem of optimal tax mix analytically in a two-sector growth model with transitional dynamics …

This paper analyzes the impact of the composition of taxes on economic growth using a panel of OECD countries. In … contrast to Kneller et al. (Fiscal policy and growth: evidence from OECD countries, 1999), over 1980-2005 distortionary … taxation did not reduce growth, while an increase in non-distortionary taxation had a negative association with growth. When …