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Richer (and Holier) Than Thou? The Effect of Relative Income Improvements on Demand for Redistribution

Karadja, Mounir; Möllerström, Johanna; Seim, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

effects on preferences for redistribution of correcting faulty beliefs. We implement a tailor-made survey in Sweden and … income position. Respondents who learn that they are richer than they thought demand less redistribution and increase their … altruism or moral values about redistribution. Moreover, the effect can be reconciled by people with political preferences to …

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Topping up and the Political Support for Social Insurance

Bergh, Andreas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

This paper analyzes how the possibility to complement social income insurance schemes with private insurance affects the political support for social insurance. It is shown that political support for social insurance is weakly decreasing in the replacement rate. Policy makers seeking to maintain...

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Redistribution, Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Mobility: Does Wage Equality Nail the Cobbler to His Last?

Sjögren, Anna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

income redistribution on mobility and talent allocation. It is found that a redistributive welfare system either reduces …

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Identity and Redistribution

Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

This paper models the interaction between individuals' identity choices and redistribution. Both redistributive polices …, redistribution is highest when society is ethnically homogenous, but the effect of ethnic diversity on redistribution is not …

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Ethnic Diversity and Civil War

Tangerås, Thomas P.; Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

exists a pacific equilibrium path sustained by redistribution from the ruling group to the out-of-power groups. …

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Legitimacy and the Cost of Government

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Lipka, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a possible explanation of this differential effect, we...

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Economic Growth and the Dynamics of Wage Determination: A Micro Simulation Study of the Stability Consequences of Deficient Variation in Factor Prices and Micro Structures

Eliasson, Gunnar; Lindberg, Thomas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986

Swedish Manufacturing Industry is said to be technologically and commercially in good shape. While Swedish wage levels were higher than in all industrial countries in the mid-70s, wages - expressed in international currencies - have now dropped to a mid-position, and real rates of return are...

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Productivity Analysis: A Micro-to-Macro Perspective

Carlsson, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987

This paper raises several issues concerning productivity analysis. An attempt is made to demonstrate the usefulness of a micro-based approach to productivity analysis which challenges some basic assumptions of conventional analyses based on aggregate production functions. With the help of a...

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Multinationals, Endogenous Growth and Technological Spillovers: Theory and Evidence

Braconier, Henrik; Baldwin, Richard E.; Forslid, Rikard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

FDI has received surprisingly little attention in theoretical and empirical work on openness and growth. This paper presents a theoretical growth model where MNCs directly affect the endogenous growth rate via technological spillovers. This is novel since other endogenous growth models with...

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International Financial Liberalization and Industry Growth

Vlachos, Jonas; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

The growth effects of international financial liberalization and integration are investigated using the methodology and data developed by Rajan and Zingales (1998). The main result is that industries highly dependent on external financing do not experience higher growth in value added in...

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