Unequal Lives, Unequal Benefits: Life Expectancy and Social Security Rules
Javier Fernández-Blanco and Virginia Sánchez-Marcos evaluate the welfare implications of retirement benefits that ignore predictable differences in life expectancy.
Tag Archive: inequality
Immigration, Inequality, and Income Taxes
Mirjam Bächli and Albrecht Glitz study how immigration affects the way in which local governments set their effective income tax rates and the consequences that this has for the distributional impact of immigration.
The Great Gatsby Curve and the Carnegie Effect
Jaime Alonso-Carrera, Jordi Caballé and Xavier Raurich study the relationship between inequality and social mobility of people born into families with different levels of income.
Consumption Segregation
Corina Boar and Elisa Giannone find that consumption segregation can exacerbate wealth inequality through social comparisons.
