Income and Wealth

Executive Compensation: What Should We Do? PowerPoint by Jesse Fried

Jesse Fried's PowerPoint presentation to accompany his talk at the Executive Compensation event sponsored by the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and hosted at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC on May 4, 2010. See also the PowerPoint audio file of this talk.

Tax Structure and Revenue Instability: The Great Recession and the States

Though the great recession has had the most severe overall effect on state tax revenues of any downturn since the Great Depression, impacts varied widely across states. Tax revenues were affected through two different channels. The first is due to the collapse in realized capital gains income following the sharp decline in the stock market. State tax bases are affected in proportion to pre-recession reliance on capital gains income, in turn closely associated with the degree of income concentration.

A Remedy Worse than the Disease: Why Higher Taxes are Better than Pay Caps

Robert H. Frank concludes that even if the dramatic increase in pay can be explained by simple market dynamics, it is still corrosive to American society and should be addressed by taxing excessive pay.

A National Protocol for Measuring Intergenerational Economic Mobility?

The question that animates this paper is whether a standardized protocol for measuring the amount and contours of intergenerational mobility in the United States might usefully be established. Thoughout our discussion, we understand "intergenerational mobility" to refer to the association between (a) the social standing of an individual’s family of origin (as assessed when the individual is growing up), and (b) the social standing of that same individual when she or he is an adult.

Millionaire Migration in California: The Impact of Top Tax Rates

California is one of eight states that have established a “millionaire tax” in recent years. The popular appeal of these taxes is that they raise revenue from those seen to have greater ability to pay a higher rate on the highest portion of their incomes. The concern, however, is that millionaire taxes may lead to millionaire migration, with potentially serious loss of revenues for the state. This study addresses the following key question: Do changes in California’s top income tax rates lead to changes in the migration of top incomes?

Executive Compensation: What Should We Do?

Christopher Wimer introduces the Executive Compensation: What Should We Do? event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and hosted at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC on May 4, 2010.

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Executive Compensation: Alex Edmans

Alex Edmans speaks at the Executive Compensation event sponsored by the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and hosted at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC on May 4, 2010. 

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Executive Compensation: Jesse Fried

Jesse Fried speaks at the Executive Compensation event sponsored by the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and hosted at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC on May 4, 2010. See also the PowerPoint presentation that accompanied this talk.

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Executive Compensation: Q&A

Post-presentation group Q&A, moderated by Lawrence Mishel, at the Executive Compensation event sponsored by the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and hosted at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC on May 4, 2010.

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