A simple subgroup decomposable measure of downward (and upward) income mobility
Working Paper 2018-472 Abstract We propose a subgroup decomposable class of income mobility measures with good axiomatic properties by adapting
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Read MoreWorking Paper 2018-471 Abstract We use data from the World Wealth & Income Database, the European Values Surveys and World
Read MoreWorking Paper 2018-470 Abstract Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute
Read MoreWorking Paper 2018-469 Abstract In this paper I study Finnish top incomes from a gender perspective using the Finnish register-based
Read MoreWorking Paper 2018-468 Abstract This paper examines the optimal direction of marginal income tax reform in the context of New
Read MoreWorking Paper 2018-467 Abstract This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in
Read MoreWorking Paper 2018-466 Abstract How does employer power mediate the impact of labor saving technical change on inequality? This question
Read MoreWorking Paper 2018-465 Abstract A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive ‘synthetic panel’ data estimates of poverty dynamics
Read MoreWorking Paper 2018-464 Abstract We build a simple model in which (i) households select their country of residence depending on
Read MoreWorking Paper 2018-463 Abstract It is sometimes observed and frequently assumed that top incomes in household surveys worldwide are poorly
Read MoreWorking Paper 2018-462 Abstract The optimal income taxation literature focuses on the tradeoff between the equity gains of higher progressivity
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