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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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The torch that wouldn't burn - UCLA in 1968

Sep 29, 2014

Employment as University Professor is by comparison with the grind of the professional world a peaceful, perhaps even relaxing, assignment.

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Top incomes and the glass ceiling

Jul 17, 2014

The glass ceiling is typically examined in terms of the distribution of earnings. This column discusses the glass ceiling in the gender distribution of total incomes, including self-employment and capital income. Evidence from Canada and the UK shows we are still far from equality. Though the proportion of women in the top 1% has been rising, the progress is slower, almost non-existent, at the very top of the distribution.

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Self-Control and Public Pensions

Jul 13, 2014

Our welfare depends not only on our actual consumption, but also on alternate choices wedid not make.