Arbeitspapier

The Race between Demand and Supply: Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality

Understanding inequality and devising policies to alleviate it was a central focus of Jan Tinbergen's lifetime research. He was far ahead of his time in many aspects of his work. This essay places his work in the perspective of research on inequality in his time and now, focusing on his studies on the pricing of skills and the evolution of skill prices. In his most fundamental contribution, Tinbergen developed the modern framework for hedonic models as part of his agenda for integrating demand and supply for skills to study determination of earnings and its distribution and the design of effective policy. His lifetime emphasis on social planning caused some economists to ignore his fundamental work.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12046

Classification
Wirtschaft
History of Economic Thought: Individuals
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Factor Income Distribution
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Education and Inequality
Demand and Supply of Labor: General
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Planning, Coordination, and Reform
Subject
income inequality
hedonic models
general equilibrium
models of inequality

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Heckman, James J.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2018

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Heckman, James J.
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2018

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