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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2015
the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market … processes and the income distribution after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of … ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124890
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Measuring Health Inequality with Categorical Data: Some Regional Patterns
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - CESifo - 2013
Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701089
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Trading Off Generations: Infinitely Lived Agent Versus OLG
Schneider, Maik T.; Traeger, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - CESifo - 2012
The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs in climate change predominantly in terms of the Ramsey equation relying on the infinitely lived agent model. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate our results to the infinitely lived agent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649700
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Energy Taxes and Natural Gas Demand in EU-Countries
Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - CESifo - 2001
. Traditional tax incidence theory presumes spot markets. Natural gas in the EU-area, however, is to a large extent regulated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196327
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Regional Inequality and Internal Conflict
Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2013
This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level re- gional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610085
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Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Search Unemployment
Lehmann, Etienne; Parmentier, Alexis; Linden, Bruno Van der - CESifo - 2011
We characterize optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are endogenous. Average tax rates are increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833925
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Minimum Wages as a Redistributive Device in the Long Run
Economides, George; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2014
This paper analyzes long run outcomes resulting from adopting a binding minimum wage in a neoclassical model with perfectly competitive labour markets and capital accumulation. The model distinguishes between workers of heterogeneous ability and capitalists who do all the saving, and it entails...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960638
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877730
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Evaluating Real World Income Distributions behind the Veil of Ignorance - How Risk Averse do you have to be to Prefer Europe over the US?
Weichenrieder, Alfons; Zafar, Tasneem - CESifo - 2011
The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US rather than any European country in our sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368502
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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - CESifo - 2011
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228621