Topics on the Dynamics of the Income and Wealth Distribution

收入和财富分配动态专题

• 批准号: 9309514
• 负责人: Jose-Victor Rios-Rull
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-09-15 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9309514&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Topics; Dynamics; Income; Wealth; Distribution

9309514 Rios-Rull The principal investigator will study a series of interrelated projects, all of them sharing the feature of studying the determinants and the dynamics of the income and wealth distribution. The projects can be divided into two main groups differing in the mechanism in place for the redistribution of income and wealth. The first group of projects considers uninsurable employment risks, while the second group allows for redistribution through tax policies that are endogenously generated by the interaction of agents. The first project tries to answer the question of whether the key properties of the income distribution in postwar U.S. can be accounted for by the movements associated with fluctuations in economic activity. Both employment and the factor shares of output present strong cyclical behavior. The models used are hard to work out and this study will solve a simpler approximated economy. Associated with the problem just described is the question of what can account for the large values of the Gini Indices in the distribution of wealth. This issue of understanding the origins of the large wealth and income inequality is addressed in a second project that tries to determine the properties of the process for uninsurable labor income risk that are required to obtain wealth distributions like the one observed. This labor income process will be compared to those found in empirical studies. The second main part of this research deals with general issues of economic policy determination and its relation to the distribution of people over key variables, like wealth. It builds on a dynamic notion of political equilibrium. The specific projects involved are, first, to investigate the success of the redistributional model, in accounting for empirical findings that relate growth performance and the distribution of wealth. The second project explores the changes in the income and wealth distribution since World War II. It aims to find out how much of those changes can be accounted for purely on redistributional grounds. ***

小行星9309514 首席研究员将研究一系列相互关联的项目，所有这些项目都具有研究收入和财富分配的决定因素和动态的特点。 这些项目可分为两大类，其收入和财富再分配机制各不相同。 第一组项目考虑不可保的就业风险，而第二组项目则允许通过代理人相互作用产生的税收政策进行再分配。 第一个项目试图回答这样一个问题，即战后美国收入分配的关键属性是否可以用与经济活动波动相关的运动来解释。 就业和产出的要素份额都呈现出强烈的周期性行为。 所使用的模型很难计算出来，本研究将解决一个更简单的近似经济。 与上述问题相关的问题是，在财富分配中，什么可以解释基尼指数的大值。 这个问题的理解的起源大的财富和收入不平等是解决在第二个项目，试图确定属性的过程中不可保的劳动收入风险，需要获得财富分配，如观察。 这一劳动收入过程将与实证研究中发现的过程进行比较。 本研究的第二个主要部分涉及经济政策决定的一般问题及其与人口在关键变量（如财富）上的分布的关系。 它建立在政治均衡的动态概念之上。 所涉及的具体项目是，首先，调查再分配模式的成功，在会计的经验发现，增长业绩和财富分配。 第二个项目探讨了自第二次世界大战以来收入和财富分配的变化。 它旨在找出这些变化中有多少可以纯粹基于再分配的理由来解释。 ***