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Automation and Inequality with Taxes and Transfers

Tyers, Rod - 2017

The dependence of real income and inequality on changes in factor abundance, total factor productivity, factor bias, the relative cost of capital goods and the progressivity of the tax system are quantified using an elemental general equilibrium model with three households. Observed declines in...

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Automation, Taxes and Transfers with International Rivalry

Tyers, Rod - 2018

Continued automation and declines in low-skill shares of GDP have been widespread globally and linked to inequality. We … examine the long-term, global consequences of policies that foster automation or address the distributional consequences of it … GDP. Even where automation delivers only bias against the low skilled, we find that the fostering it is a dominant …

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The Impacts of Income Transfer Programs on Income Distribution and Poverty in Brazil : An Integrated Microsimulation and Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Cury, Samir - 2018

A persistent and very high-income inequality is a well known feature of the Brazilian economy. However, from 2001 to 2005 the Gini index presented an unprecedented fall of 4.6 percent combined with significant poverty reduction. Previous studies using partial equilibrium analysis have pointed...

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Top incomes, rising inequality, and welfare

Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2015

We introduce permanently-shifting income shares into a standard growth model with two types of agents. Capital owners represent the top quintile of U.S. households while workers represent the remainder. Our tractable model allows us to exactly replicate the observed U.S. time paths of the top...

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Automation and inequality with taxes and transfers

Tyers, Rodney; Zhou, Yixiao - In: Scottish journal of political economy : the journal of … 70 (2023) 1, pp. 68-100

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Automation and Inequality in China

Zhou, Yixiao - 2017

In transitional economies like China, comparatively low real wages imply sub-OECD labor and skill shares of value added and comparatively high capital shares. Despite rapid real wage growth, however, rather than converge toward the OECD, China's low-skill labor share has been falling, due to...

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