By Peter R. Orszag. Very often, proposals to even out income inequality advise one of two things: Expand people's access to education and/or raise the top tax rates. Yet even a big increase in the share of people with a college degree would have only a minimal effect on earnings inequality, research has shown. And now it turns out that a substantial increase in the top marginal tax rate wouldn't do any better. More...
21 octobre 2015
Education and taxes can't reduce inequality
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