Inequality, Taxation, and Intergenerational Transmission

John A. Bishop|Juan Gabriel Rodríguez

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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.

INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. INHERITANCE TAXATION: REDISTRIBUTION AND PREDISTRIBUTION; Frank A. Cowell, Dirk van de Gaer and Chang He Chapter 2. A NOTE ON PROGRESSIVE TAXATION AND INEQUALITY EQUIVALENCE; Claudio Zoli Chapter 3. INCOME AND WEALTH DISTRIBUTION IN A NEOCLASSICAL GROWTH MODEL WITH σ≥1; Mauro Patrao Chapter 4. APPLYING THE DECOMPOSITION OF THE FOSTER AND WOLFSON BIPOLARIZATION INDEX TO EARNINGS FUNCTIONS; Elena Bárcena-Martín and Jacques Silber Chapter 5. THE COUNTING APPROACH TO MULTIDIMENSIONAL FOOD SECURITY MEASUREMENT: THE CASE OF ISRAEL; Miri Endeweld and Jacques Silber Chapter 6. THE IMPACT OF EDUCATION ON INCOME INEQUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA BETWEEN 2000 AND 2010; Claudia Samano-Robles Chapter 7. INCOME INEQUALITY AND INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN EUROPE. ARE THEY ON THE RISE?; Ana Suárez Álvarez and Ana Jesús López Menéndez Chapter 8. MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES IN INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE IN EUROPE; Maria A. Davia and Nuria Legazpe Chapter 9. LONG-RUN FACTORS INFLUENCING INTERGENERATIONAL PERCEIVED JOB STATUS MOBILITY; John A. Bishop, Haiyong Liu and Juan Gabriel Rodríguez Chapter 10. MISPERCEPTIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF SUBJECTIVE ECONOMIC INEQUALITY; Aboozar Hadavand Chapter 11. DEMOCRACY AND EQUALITY PREFERENCES; John A. Bishop and Haiyong Liu

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.
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John A. Bishop is a Professor of Economics at East Carolina University, USA. He has published more than seventy-five papers on the topics of inequality and poverty. His best known work includes statistical inference for inequality and poverty measures, benefit incidence analysis, tax progressivity analysis, and the inequality effects of alternative public policies. Current research interests include subjective equivalence scales, regional price effects on inequality and poverty, and discrimination. Recent papers appear in the Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Economic Inequality, and the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy.

Juan Gabriel Rodríguez is a Professor of Economics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and member of EQUALITAS, ICAE and CEDESOG. Previously, he was Head of Research Studies of the Spanish Fiscal Studies Institute (2008-10). His fields of research are inequality, equality of opportunity, economic growth and social welfare. He has published in reviews like Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Development, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Inequality, Social Choice and Welfare and Review of Income and Welfare. Current research interests include measurement of opportunity, inequality-of-opportunity effects on economic growth, and mobility.