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Many-Person Ramsey Rule and Nonlinear Income Taxation

Gauthier, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2015

groups. Redistribution from indirect taxes favors households living in rural Quebec …

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How does party fractionalization convey preferences for redistribution in parliamentary democracies ?.

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella; Guillaud, Elvire - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2008

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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Preferences for redistribution: an empirical analysis.

Guillaud, Elvire - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2011

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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Gender and Ethnic Inequalities in LAC Countries.

Canelas, Carla; Salazar, Silvia - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2014

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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The three worlds of welfare capitalism revisited.

Brockhoff, Sarah; Rossignol, Stéphane; Taugourdeau, … - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2012

distribution of risks inside society, the Liberal system wins if the inequality of income is low, and the Beveridgean system wins … if the inequality of income is high. Using a utilitarian criterion, the Beveridgean system always dominates and the …

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Political Ideology and Economic Growth in a Democracy: The French Experience, 1871 - 2009.

Facchini, François; Melki, Mickaël - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2012

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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Discounting, Risk and Inequality: A General Approach.

Fleurbaey, Marc; Zuber, Stéphane - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2014

inequality. We also study the limit value of the discount rate for very long term investments, and the type of information that …

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The economic value of virtue.

Mariani, Fabio - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2008

societies and over time, can be determined, among others, by income inequality, gender differences, social stratification and …

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Quelle intelligence du capital pour demain ? Une lecture du Capital au XXIème siècle de Thomas Piketty.

Giraud, Gaël - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2014

I offer a critical reading of Thomas Piketty's book, Le Capital au XXIème siècle, Seuil, 2013.

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Social fragmentation and public goods : polarization, inequality and patronage in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Bros, Catherine - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2010

A vast recent literature has stressed social fragmentation's negative impact on the provision of public goods. It has been established theoretically that social fragmentation engenders discord and thereby undermines public goods provision. Empirical research has produced mixed results about this...

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