News: 2013-23: Made Poorer by Choice: Worker Outcomes in Social Security v. Private Retirement Accounts

16 days ago - FRB Finance and Economics Discussion Series Working Papers

Javed I. Ahmed, Brad M. Barber, and Terrance Odean. Can the freedom to choose how retirement funds are invested leave workers worse off? We analyze social risks of allowing ch...

News: Escaping Latin America’s inequality trap

31 days ago - Forum:Blog

It’s no coincidence that the continent with the worst levels of inequality – Latin America – is also the most dependent on commodities. However, while the general econom...

News: 2013-20: Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis

39 days ago - FRB Finance and Economics Discussion Series Working Papers

Fatih Guvenen, Burhanettin Kuruscu, and Serdar Ozkan. Wage inequality has been significantly higher in the United States than in continental European countries (CEU) since the...

News: VIDEO: Gender pay inequality in the US

40 days ago - BBC News - Business

It is 50 years since President John F Kennedy signed America's Equal Pay Act, but figures show that women still earn less than men, on average, in every state and region of th...

Blog: Mechanical Model of Personal Income Distribution

Econophysics Forum 41 days ago

News: A new way of thinking in economics

43 days ago - INET Blog

Originally appeared in China Daily What is the purpose of economics? In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, much of the economics profession has failed to provide a...

Blog: A new way of thinking in economics

Institute for New Economic Thinking 43 days ago

News: Trickle-Down Consumption -- by Marianne Bertrand, Adair Morse

62 days ago - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers

Have rising income and consumption at the top of income distribution since the early 1980s induced households in the lower tiers of the distribution to consume a larger share ...

News: Migration and Wage Effects of Taxing Top Earners: Evidence from the Foreigners' Tax Scheme in Denmark -- by Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Camille Landais, Emmanuel Saez, Esben Anton Schultz

62 days ago - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers

This paper analyzes the effects of income taxation on the international migration and earnings of top earners using a Danish preferential foreigner tax scheme and population-w...

News: How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments -- by Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez, Stefanie Stantcheva

69 days ago - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers

This paper analyzes the effects of information about inequality and taxes on preferences for redistribution using randomized online surveys on Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk). ...