Below are the presentations for the event 'Tony Atkinson and Inequality Policy: What Can Be Done?' on Friday 16 February 2018.
Introduction
- Programme
- Tony Atkinson and Inequality Policy
Stephen Jenkins
Presentations
A. Labour Market
- Inequality and the Labour Market: Some evidence and some proposals
Richard Blundell - Wages
Steve Machin
B. Capital Market
- Improving the Distribution of Wealth: Lecture in Memory of Anthony Atkinson
Joseph E. Stiglitz - Remarks on Session B. Capital Market
Mervyn King
C. Taxation and social security
- Reducing inequality with tax-benefit reform: the case for Child Benefit
Holly Sutherland (Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex)
D. International perspectives
- An inequality chart exercise "à la manière de" Tony Atkinson
François Bourguignon (Paris School of Economics) - Income and Wealth Inequality in Affluent Countries: Levels, Trends, and Implications for the Middle Class
Janet C. Gornick (City University of New York & Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
joint with Nathaniel Johnson (City University of New York)