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Towards Behavioral Political Economy of Institutional Change: With Field Facts from China

Zhang, Yongjing; Wang, Mei - CESifo - 2014

This study proposes an analytical framework towards behavioral political economy of institutional change. It considers institutional changes as central government’s choices under uncertainty, which are largely driven by the strategic outcomes in a behavioral coordination game between local...

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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital: A Model of Economic Decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2010

redistribution, do not compete with immigrants in the labor market, and do not compete with immigrants for publicly financed income …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583706

Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001

creativity is more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from …

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Fueling Growth when Oil Peaks: Directed Technological Change and the Limits to Efficiency

André, Francisco J.; Smulders, Sjak - CESifo - 2012

While fossil energy dependency has declined and energy supply has grown in the postwar world economy, future resource scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous growth model that reconciles the current aggregate...

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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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