Inequality, Taxation, and Intergenerational Transmission

Juan Gabriel Rodríguez editor John A Bishop editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited

Published:14th Dec '18

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Research on Economic Inequality, volume 26, primarily contains papers presented at the 8th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. The papers cover such topics as the effect of inheritance taxation on the "pre-distribution" of income, and tax progressivity under alternative inequality definitions. Other papers address the evolution of wealth inequality (Piketty's "r-g"), the decomposition of the determinants of wage bi-polarization, a multidimensional analysis of food insecurity in Israel, and the "paradox of progress" (educational) in Latin America. Three papers address the intergenerational transmission of inequality, two of which focus on Europe and one which considers a wide variety of countries. The final two papers explore inequality (mis) perceptions and the influence of the political structure on stated inequality preferences.

This volume brings together 11 papers presented at the Eighth Society for the Study of Economic Inequality meeting, held in New York in July 2017. Economists and other social scientists from Europe, Israel, Brazil, and the US address topics related to inequality, poverty, taxation, and intergenerational transmission: inheritance taxation, the relationship between inequality and progressive taxation under a general definition of inequality equivalence, income and wealth distributions in a neoclassical growth model, the application of a decomposition method of the Foster-Wolfson bipolarization index to earnings functions, the application of multidimensional poverty measurement to food security, the impact of education on income inequality in Latin America, income inequality and inequality of opportunity in Europe, macroeconomic determinants of cross-country differences in intergenerational transmission of economic disadvantage in Europe, long-run factors influencing intergenerational perceived job status mobility, why the perception of inequality and objective inequality often differ, and the role of governance in the expression of equality preferences. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *

ISBN: 9781787564589

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328 pages