Category: Inequality

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Inequality

Trends in global poverty

Trends in global poverty are changing and global measurement of poverty reduction might be overstated.

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On immigration and wages

Empirical evidence on how immigration affects wages is inconclusive. Or is it? Is there a bias in the research published in the top five journals? What is the effect of technology?

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Reflections on inequality

On inequality through the lens of history.  Economists worry about inequality but people worry about lack of opportunity – a new US survey.

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Capital-skill complementarity: does it still hold?

As technology changes does skilled labor still enjoy a wage premium? What is the equilibrium level of automation?

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Income inequality and macro variables

Inequality is not a distributional issue it is likely a central force shaping broader macro-economic trends.

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Are we measuring poverty incorrectly?

New research on: how to better measure the degree of economic distress felt by everyday people; what does a better price dataset imply about inequality?

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Inequality: a different perspective

Two new papers on inequality addressing why capital flows from equal to unequal  countries and whether wealth inequality is actually perceived as unfair.

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The distributional effects of monetary policy

Interesting empirical evidence from Denmark. Who among the wealthy gains from expansionary monetary policy?

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Working women: plus ça change…

Could the slowdown in recent business cycle recoveries be attributed to female employment? How social norms affect the marriage gap between skilled and unskilled women ?

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Inequality, mortgage rates and house prices

Interesting new research on how inequality decreases house prices, while expansionary monetary policy increases the mortgage rates paid by minority borrowers.

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