Why economists are at war over inequality
Income gaps are growing inexorably—aren’t they?
Income gaps are growing inexorably—aren’t they?
theinspectorst, Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/QdLoU
Interesting finding of the JPE paper that the apparent and much publicised rise in US inequality from the Piketty and Saez analysis might actually be an artificial feature of things like an increased incentive to declare income on tax returns post-1986 and an over-focus on household rather than individual incomes.
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