Economics Essays on the causes and consequences of income inequality HARVARD UNIVERSITY BarenboimIgorIncome inequality is at the heart of economics because it is intimately related to the design of incentive based schemes. The feature that makes this topic yet more interesting is the political economy...
Numerous and countless factors have been theorized to be causes of inequality. This paper started with identifying the most important determinants of income inequality through theoretical research. Among the various theories of causes of inequality, I hypothesized creating a level playing for children at...
(say, by using a flat tax with the bottom 20% of the population cut off), you'd still end up with high income inequality, but low poverty. My only point in saying this is to highlight that it isn't the difference between rich and poor in the US that causes the proble...
Over the past few decades, East Asia has seen a surprising rise in the rate of short-sightedness. And a growing pile of evidence suggests that the main potential reason for this is education-specifically, the fact that children spend large parts of the day in comparatively dimly lit ...
An inquiry into the causes of income differences among high-income countries Within high-income countries, there is a notable income inequality spectrum, with certain nations positioned close to a predefined economic threshold, whil... CM Jayadevan,NT Hoang,SR Yarram - 《Research in Economics》 被...
Numerous studies have shown that the socioeconomic (SES) achievement gap is the main cause of inequality of students in schools and other educational systems (Bourdieu 1989; Carnoy 2007; Shavit and Blossfeld 1993, as cited in Doren, 2013). The most significant reason of this finding according ...
Income inequality and status seeking: searching for positional goods in unequal U.S. States. It is well established that income inequality is associated with lower societal well-being, but the psychosocial causes of this relationship are poorly und... L Walasek,GDA Brown - 《Psychol Sci》 被引...
progress."Whatever wemean by the economy growing,by things getting better,the gains will have to be more evenly shared than inthe recent past,"she writes."An economy of tech millionaires or billionaires and gig workers,withmiddle-income jobs undercut by automation,will not be politically ...
Section “Conclusion” shows the main conclusions of this paper. Methods CGE model In this paper, a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model, originating from the pioneering work of Johansen (1960), is used to analyse inequality impacts of carbon taxes. Stemming from the general equilibrium ...
The policies that were adopted did result in a return to growth, but the main beneficiaries were those at the top of the income ladder. Labor unions came under attack in the workplace, in courts, and in public policy. Top marginal tax rates were reduced in an attempt to direct more mone...