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. Finally, after reviewing the benefits of using simulation games in NRM, the authors stress the ethical issue of changing … of Simulation & Gaming, some key features related to the implementation of gaming in such a context are introduced …
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We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts …
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Due to behavioral effects triggered by redistributional interventions, it is still an open question whether government policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country-level data sources to study inequality trends in...
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agent of the economy. Moreover, such a policy decreases the tax rate of the pension system. …
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linkbetween contributions and benefits has an impact on the level of capital per capita if and only if there are inequalities of …-benefitstructure. The tax rate and inequalities decrease, whereas the wealth of each agent increases. However, with a defined …
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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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Although the crisis of the Welfare State has been evoked for quite a long time, figures show that such a phenomenon has arisen only recently. Furthermore, it is not a common feature in all developed countries. This paper aims at explaining these two empirical facts. We use an overlapping...
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systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by …
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This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...
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In this paper, the relationship between the degree of centralisation and the distributive outcomes in European schemes of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes except for Luxembourg according to features related to...
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