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Income Inequality

Antitrust and Competition

Rents and Inclusive Growth: A Decline in Rent Sharing Implies Growing Income Inequalities

Brian Bell
A new study looks at the long-run evolution of rent sharing between companies and workers in the UK and finds that rent sharing...
Health Care

Study: Medicaid Expansion in Michigan Led to Less Financial Distress

Bhash Mazumder
A new study finds that obtaining health insurance coverage leads to lower unpaid debt, fewer bankruptcies, fewer evictions, fewer late payments, and higher credit...
Antitrust and Competition

How Market Power Worsens Income Inequality

Joshua Gans
Inequality in stock ownership has grown considerably over the past two decades and is far more pronounced than inequality in consumption or income. A...
Income Inequality

What Comes After Trickle-Down Trade Liberalization?

Timothy Meyer
The United States needs to rethink its trade policy. A new report offers a blueprint, consisting of ten major reforms. US trade policy is at...
Income Inequality

Reducing Wealth Inequality Through Wealth Taxes Without Compromising Economic Growth

Linus Mattauch
New research proposes two ways of using wealth taxes to reduce inequality and increase efficiency. Economic inequality has risen significantly within major economies around the...
Income Inequality

Davos Elites Love to Advocate for Equality – So Long As Nothing Gets Done

Branko Milanovic
The return to the industrial relations and tax policies of the early 19th century has been spearheaded by people who speak the language of...
Income Inequality

The Malleable Demand for Trade Protection: How Political Campaigns Can Easily Manipulate Public Attitudes Toward Public Policy

Rafael Di Tella
Where does today’s anti-trade sentiment come from? A new study finds that people are particularly sensitive to job losses and outsourcing due to international...
Antitrust and Competition

Facebook, Extreme Inequality, and Globalization: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2018

ProMarket writers
As 2018 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year.     The early mentor to Mark...
Income Inequality

The Inequality Paradox: Rising Inequalities Nationally, Diminishing Inequality Worldwide

Branko Milanovic
Workers in emerging economies benefitted from globalization and workers in rich countries, on balance, did not. Overturning globalization, however, will neither work nor bring...
Income Inequality

Does Sweden’s Radical Right Reflect Too Much Social Inclusivity, Or Too Little?

Ernesto Dal Bó
Many have attributed the success of the far-right Sweden Democrats to Sweden's open immigration policy. Instead, a new study shows that income inequality and...
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