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Workfare and Trade Unions: Labor Market Repercussions of Welfare Reform

Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2003

Workfare proposals concentrate on the work incentives for welfare recipients, thus focusing on the labor supply side. This paper analyzes the effects workfare has on labor demand when the labor market is unionized. As workfare reduces the number of recipients of public financial assistance, a...

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Biased Perceptions of Income Inequality and Redistribution

Engelhardt, Carina; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2014

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes – though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …

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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gerber, Anke; Nicklisch, Andreas; Voigt, Stefan - CESifo - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare

Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - CESifo - 2012

This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...

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Normative Analysis with Societal Constraints

Boadway, Robin; Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines the question of achieving a societal consensus around redistributive policies. Its extent is measured by the degree of work participation among the different skill classes that populate the economy. This consensus is driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous...

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Deserving Poor and the Desirability of Minimum Wage Rules

Blumkin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - CESifo - 2014

In this paper we provide a novel justification for the use of minimum wage rules to supplement the optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage rule can be...

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Political Institutions and Income (Re-)Distribution: Evidence from Developed Economies

Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - CESifo - 2013

. Fiscal competition is associated with less income redistribution and a less equal distribution of disposable incomes, but …

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Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy

Wildasin, David E. - CESifo - 2014

Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...

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Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions

Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin Mattias - CESifo - 2013

occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and generically causes inefficiency. Interestingly, redistribution arises …

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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Bastani, Spencer; Blumkin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - CESifo - 2014

In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...

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