Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data since 1937
Oct 2010
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Wojciech Kopczuk
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Personal Details
Focus areas: Tax policy, income and wealth inequality
Wojciech Kopczuk is a professor at SIPA and the Department of Economics. Kopczuk's research focus is on issues related to tax policy and income and wealth inequality. His work has been published in top economics journals, including American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy and Review of Economic Studies. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics and associate editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Click here for a full list of publications.
Kopczuk holds a BA in Economics and an MSc in Computer Science from Warsaw University, and an MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan.
Education
- PhD in Economics, University of Michigan
- MA in Economics, University of Michigan
- MSc in Computer Science, Warsaw University
- BA in Economics, Warsaw University
Research And Publications
In The Media
Supply and demand is reason why "essential workers" are paid so little. “Many of the ‘essential’ occupations are easy to enter, and jobs with a large supply of potential workers are paid less,” says Wojciech Kopczuk.
Apr 05 2020
Washington Post
Tax cuts or a fiscal stimulus might not work during this pandemic as they have during previous economic downturns, says Wojciech Kopczuk. "What are you going to do, make me go to a restaurant that's shut down anyway?"
Mar 22 2020
Stuff
Economist Gabriel Zucman discussed tax reform and the tradition of progressive taxation in the United States.
Nov 10 2019
There are a lot of different ways to do income estimates for the top 400 taxpayers, and they lead to very different conclusions says Wojciech Kopczuk about Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman's new book, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay.
Nov 04 2019
Vox
Wojciech Kopczuk comments on the Saez-Zucman approach on how to assess and describe tax burdens.
Oct 13 2019
The Wall Street Journal