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groups. Redistribution from indirect taxes favors households living in rural Quebec …
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In this paper, we highlight the link between the political demand and social policy outcome while taking into account the design of the party system. The political demand is measured by indivudual preferences and the design of the party system is defined as the extent of party fractionalization....
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redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually found to affect individual preferences in the literature, the egoistic … motives for redistribution are taken seriously and this article focuses on the role played by the occupational status of … presented here identifies which socio-political groups may be formed on the basis of their preferences for redistribution. …
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This paper deals with the effect of inequality on subsequent long run growth. Using a threshold regression analysis, we … find two threshold variables, namely human capital and inequality. Three clubs are then identified. One of our results is … relationships, either negative or positive, between inequality and growth. …
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This paper discusses the thesis put forward by Piketty (2014a) stressing the risk of an explosion of wealth inequality … inequality than the one highlighted in the book —namely, a world-wide global tax on capital. …
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overarching definitions of social capital, along with institutions, inequality, and education are consistently significant …
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I offer a critical reading of Thomas Piketty's book, Le Capital au XXIème siècle, Seuil, 2013.
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This article examines the structure of gender and ethnic wage gaps and the distribution of both paid and unpaid work in LAC countries. Its main contribution is to expose the double discrimination endured by women in the région. Indeed, the results indicate that women are highly discriminated in...
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societies and over time, can be determined, among others, by income inequality, gender differences, social stratification and …
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This paper examines the influence of political ideology on economic growth in the French democracy since 1871. It does so by addressing three main issues : the property and the reliability of a political ideology index in the long-run, the robustness of the relationship between ideology and...
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