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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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redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually found to impact individual preferences in the literature, we take the … egoistic motives for redistribution seriously and focus on the role played by the occupational status of individuals in shaping … be formed on the basis of their preferences for redistribution. Finally, (iii) we highlight differences between European …
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redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually found to impact individual preferences in the literature, we take the … egoistic motives for redistribution seriously and focus on the role played by the occupational status of individuals in shaping … be formed on the basis of their preferences for redistribution. Finally, (iii) we highlight differences between European …
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paramount in our understanding of Europe's demographic transition. …
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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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We propose a dynastic model in which individuals are born in an educated or uneducated environment that they inherit from their parents. We study the role of social networks on the correlation in the parent-child educational status independent of any parent-child interaction. We show that the...
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One of the explanations of the social mobility's growth in industrial countries from Europe and North America since the …
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Using a capital-skill complementarity technology, we analytically show that an increase in the direct redistributivity of Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) pension systems has a positive impact on wages and on wage inequalities. We also show that life expectancyinequalities play an important role in the...
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In this paper we study the macroeconomic impact of a policy which changes the redistributive properties of an unfunded pension system. Using an overlapping generations model with a closed economy and heterogenous agents, we show that a weaker linkbetween contributions and benefits has an impact...
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a … and show that inequality is harmful for the environment : the poorer the median voter relative to the average individual …
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