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Income distribution and convergence: the European experience, 1870-1992

Epstein, Philip; Howlett, Peter; Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

decade. Galor identified three forms of long run percapita income convergence: absolute convergence, whereby convergence …

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Social Exclusion, Social Isolation and the Distributionof Income

Barry, Brian M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

It is worth distinguishing social exclusion from social isolation, definingsocial isolation as the phenomenon of non-participation (of anindividual or group) in a society’s mainstream institutions, whilereserving ‘social exclusion’ for the subset of cases in which socialisolation occurs...

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Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs: Evidence from U.S. Law Firms

Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2009

Earnings inequality has increased substantially since the 1970s. Using evidence changes from condential Census data on U.S. law offices on lawyers'organization and earnings, we study the extent to which the mechanism suggested by Lucas (1978) and Rosen (1982), a scale of operations effect...

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A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution

Caselli, Francesco; Ventura, Jaume - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

This paper introduces various sources of consumer heterogeneity in one-sector representative consumer (RC) growth models and develops tools to study the evolution of the distribution of consumptions, assets and incomes.[...]

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Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presenceof Income Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

labor income taxation. Additional literature is motivated bythe possibility that distributive concerns should amend the …

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Comparing incomes when needs differ: Equivalisation forthe extra costs of disability in the UK

Zaidi, Asghar; Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

theory is that a household’s standard of livingis a function of income and needs. The extra costs of disability can be … derivedby comparing the standard of living of households with and without disabledmembers at a given income, having controlled … results, we compare and contrastthree different income distributions which differ in their adjustment for the extracosts of …

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