Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0988589

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0988589

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Economic Inequality: Trends, Causes and Consequences. Measuring inequality and understanding its determinants is important for three reasons. First, knowing the causes and consequences of inequality is critical to making trade-offs between equity and efficiency. Second, the degree of economic mobility over the lifecycle determines how much opportunity people have to move upwards, and how much risk they face on moving downwards. This informs policies that guard against risk (eg. social insurance) and those that encourage risk (eg. entrepreneurship). Third, by learning more about intergenerational mobility, we can improve policies that seek to boost the life chances of children in disadvantaged households.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 20-11-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $295,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Public Sector Economics | Labour Economics | Applied Economics | Economic History

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Income policy | The distribution of wealth | Microeconomic effects of taxation |

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Economic History | Income policy | Labour Economics | Microeconomic effects of taxation | Public Sector Economics | The distribution of wealth

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