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Working Paper No. 193
The Impact of Declining Union Membership on Voter Participation among Democrats
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Report No. 2
Report May 1997
Alicia H. Munnell, member of the Council of Economic Advisers, discusses Social Security, the Consumer Price Index, and income inequality in The Levy Report Interview. Contents: Seventh Annual Conference on Financial Structure: Developments in the Financial System: National and International Perspectives * The Levy Report Interview: Alicia H. Munnell Discusses the Future of Social Security, […]
Press Release
The Case for Retargeting Tax Subsidies to Broaden Health Care Coverage
Public Policy Brief Highlight No. 30
Prescription for Health Care Policy
With health care delivery increasingly shaped by market and budgetary discipline, the provision of health care for all seems an ever-more-distant goal.The high cost of American health care is the inevitable by-product of its method of financing. Walter M. Cadette proposes shifting the tax subsidies to health care from the tax exclusion of employment-based health […]
Public Policy Brief No. 30
Prescription for Health Care Policy
With health care delivery increasingly shaped by market and budgetary discipline, the provision of health care for all seems an ever-more-distant goal.The high cost of American health care is the inevitable by-product of its method of financing. Walter M. Cadette proposes shifting the tax subsidies to health care from the tax exclusion of employment-based health […]
Working Paper No. 192
Social Security
Some reform of Social Security is needed to keep the system solvent given the additional financial pressure that will be placed on it as the baby boom generation retires: the Social Security Administration estimates that payroll taxes will have to be increased 2.2 percent or benefits reduced by an equal amount to maintain financial balance […]
Working Paper No. 191
Dynamic Output and Employment Effects of Public Capital
Studies that have examined the effect of public spending on economic growth have reported esmates for the marginal product of public capital that are well in excess of, equal to, and less than the marginal product of private capital. Not only does this wide range of estimates call for further examination, but several questions about […]
Working Paper No. 190
Output and Employment Effects of Public Capital
Studies that have examined the effect of public spending on economic growth have reported esmates for the marginal product of public capital that are well in excess of, equal to, and less than the marginal product of private capital. Not only does this wide range of estimates call for further examination, but several questions about […]
Working Paper No. 189
Do States Optimize?
Studies that have examined the effect of public spending on economic growth have reported esmates for the marginal product of public capital that are well in excess of, equal to, and less than the marginal product of private capital. Not only does this wide range of estimates call for further examination, but several questions about […]
Working Paper No. 188
No Easy Answers
High unemployment rates and increasing terms of unemployment have persisted in western European countries for the past 20 years. These problems have been explained as resulting from inflexibility in the labor market created by such policies as protective labor market regulation and generous social assistance. The lower rates and shorter duration of unemployment in the […]
Press Release
Collapse of Low-Skill Wages Caused by Changes in Labor Market Institutions, Not Workplace Technology
Working Paper No. 187
Real Estate and the Capital Gains Debate
The recent budget agreement contains a capital gains tax cut. The principal justification for reducing the capital gains tax rate relies on the efficiency-equity trade-off. The capital gains tax is designed to increase equity by taxing the wealthy, but advocates of rate reduction claim that the tax has the side effect of decreasing efficiency because […]