Essays about: "Wealth Inequality"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 54 essays containing the words Wealth Inequality.

  1. 16. Deepening Automation and Wealth Inequality: An Intergenerational Perspective

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Zhaoqin Zhu; [2021]
    Keywords : Deepening automation; Tax policies; Intergenerational transfers; Wealth inequality; Aging population;

    Abstract : The fast development of automation technology has been widely recognized as a key reason for the rising wealth inequality in the US since 1980s, and current literature focuses on the channel of increasing wage inequality triggered by deepening automation. This thesis contributes to the literature by examining the interaction between autonomation and an additional channel: cross-generation wealth accumulation via bequests. READ MORE

  3. 17. A cross-country analysis of o shore wealth determinants

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Matteo Machiorlatti; [2020-07-10]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In this work, I investigate what are the elements that are associated with the amount of individual financial wealth held offshore by a country. To do so, I exploit a novel dataset constructed by Alstadsaeter, Johannesen and Zucman (2018) which contains cross-country estimates of financial wealth that individuals held in tax havens in 2007. READ MORE

  4. 18. Ungrouping Income Distributions - The Italian Doxa Survey of 1948

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Matteo Santi; [2020-07-10]
    Keywords : Data Ungrouping; Quantitative Economic History; ; Inequality; Poverty;

    Abstract : This paper investigates alternative statistical approaches to ungroup data in tabular form. After a theoretical discussion on the interpolation problem and on the features of ungrouping techniques, a non-parametric version of the algorithm of Shorrocks and Wan is introduced. READ MORE

  5. 19. The Role of Capital Taxation in Sweden: Inheritance and Wealth Accumulation over the Lifecycle

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Fanny Franov Johansson; [2020]
    Keywords : Inequality; Capital Tax; Overlapping Generations;

    Abstract : Against the backdrop of increasing levels of wealth inequality in the Swedish economy, this thesis will deploy a large scale overlapping generations model with heterogeneous ability groups to evaluate the behavioral responses of individuals across the lifecycle as well as distributional and efficiency impacts of tax policy. Specifically, the paper will examine effects resulting from a reintroduction of inheritance taxation and varying rates of increase in the capital income tax rate. READ MORE

  6. 20. Urbanisation by expulsion : the political economy of landed property in Asunción, Paraguay

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Maiwenn Jensen-Guenec; [2020]
    Keywords : Paraguay; real estate development; land inequality; urban development; Marxian political economy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Although much research has been conducted regarding the uneven distribution of land in developing countries, such work tends to focus on rural land dispossession. In turn, land inequality in urban property markets of vulnerable economies remains somewhat understudied. READ MORE