Gabriel Zucman on Inequality, Growth, and Distributional National Accounts
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How to Measure Micro Economic Growth by Income Groups
There is a large gap between the total income that you see in survey and time data. The way that we try to bridge this gap is by combining national accounts, tax data and soli data. And i want to stress that this, what we've done, in my viewis is very much a prototype. So theiruncertainties could be improved in many ways. But i think the active is worth while. It's important to try to not only measure growth, but to be able to say, here is how rot looks like for people like you.
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