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Taxation of families and "families of taxation"? : inequality modification between family types across welfare states
Schechtl, Manuel - 2020 - This version: 22.07.2020
Previous sociological research has overlooked the fact that a welfare state’s tax system does not solely redistribute from rich to poor (vertical) but also between family types (horizontal). Different types of families are treated differently due to (de-)familialization policies in the tax...
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The welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries
Marx, Ive; Nolan, Brian; Olivera, Javier - 2014
This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area...
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Civic capital and support for the welfare state
Cerqueti, Roy; Sabatini, Fabio; Ventura, Marco - 2017
We model how the interplay between tax surveillance institutions and civic capital shapes taxpayers' support for welfare state. We show that, when tax surveillance is tight, rational civic-minded individuals express greater support for welfare spending than uncivic ones. We provide empirical...
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Pension institutions and income inequality across European societies : Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom
Neugschwender, Jörg - 2015
This paper analyses major pension system regulation in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. It is focused on the government's and social partner's efforts to provide old-age security benefits, and how these regulatory approaches have shaped the current...
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Bling-Bling politics : exposure to status-goods consumption shapes the social policy preferences of the less affuent
Lungu, Laura Silvia - In: Socio-economic review 21 (2023) 2, pp. 1057-1082
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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2017
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...
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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2020
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289471
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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2016
A puzzle of the modern welfare state is that a large fraction of social benefits is not taken up. Using a laboratory experiment, we present evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of a redistributive transfer by 30 percentage points. We build a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574103
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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2018
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In … role in welfare states with aging societies. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911179
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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019
This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transitions and rapid urbanization and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124448