{"title":"Fair income tax with endogenous productivities and a fresh start","authors":"Aitor Calo-Blanco","doi":"10.1007/s10888-021-09504-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-021-09504-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":284513,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Economic Inequality","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128477364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael R Ransom, Michael J. Hilmer, Christiana E. Hilmer
{"title":"Meritocracy in Academic Labor Markets: A Comparison of Three Fields","authors":"Michael R Ransom, Michael J. Hilmer, Christiana E. Hilmer","doi":"10.1007/s10888-021-09502-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-021-09502-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":284513,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Economic Inequality","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115015153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformations that minimize the Gini index of a random variable and applications","authors":"Michael McAsey, Libin Mou","doi":"10.1007/s10888-021-09508-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-021-09508-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":284513,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Economic Inequality","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128471855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The capital share and income inequality: Increasing gaps between micro and macro-data","authors":"Ignacio Flores","doi":"10.1007/s10888-021-09482-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-021-09482-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":284513,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Economic Inequality","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133491002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sources of gender wage gaps for skilled workers in Latin American countries","authors":"Marcela C. Perticara, Mauricio M. Tejada","doi":"10.1007/s10888-021-09500-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-021-09500-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":284513,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Economic Inequality","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114647061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Openness, Income Inequality, and Happiness: Evidence from China","authors":"Yong Ma, Diandian Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10888-021-09507-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-021-09507-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":284513,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Economic Inequality","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129045496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does foreign aid reduce poverty? A dynamic panel data analysis for sub-Saharan African countries","authors":"E. Mahembe, N. Odhiambo","doi":"10.1007/s10888-021-09496-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-021-09496-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":284513,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Economic Inequality","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116992430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aspirations and investments in rural Myanmar","authors":"Jeffrey R. Bloem","doi":"10.1007/s10888-021-09478-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-021-09478-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":284513,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Economic Inequality","volume":"168 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121916507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Missing Top Income Recipients","authors":"M. Ravallion","doi":"10.3386/W28890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3386/W28890","url":null,"abstract":"Low response rates among rich households are thought to be a serious problem in many applications using household surveys. The paper discusses the various ways the problem can be dealt with, and makes some recommendations for practice, including in developing countries. Under certain conditions, income-selective non-compliance with an initially randomized assignment can be corrected by reweighting the data. This requires that the surveys pick up at least some top incomes. If not, then income tax records can help, including in estimating distributional national accounts. However, tax data come with their own concerns including tax avoidance/evasion, weak coverage of informal sectors and illicit incomes, and concerns about construct validity, given the limitations of taxable income as a basis for inter-personal comparisons of economic welfare. An appropriately weighted survey-based distribution of an acceptable measure of economic welfare need not be less reliable for most purposes of distributional analysis than income-tax records, including in combination with surveys. The choice will depend on the question to be addressed, and country-specific circumstances. These measurement issues warrant further research across multiple settings.","PeriodicalId":284513,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Economic Inequality","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132294238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asset bubbles in explaining top income shares","authors":"Saikat Sarkar, Matti Tuomala","doi":"10.1007/s10888-021-09481-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-021-09481-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":284513,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Economic Inequality","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128222769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}