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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. versus Europe
Alesina, Alberto - 2003
their effort, it will chose low redistribution and low taxes. In equilibrium effort will be high, the role of luck limited …
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Preferences for Redistribution
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009
This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463822
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William R. - 2011
-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …
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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis
Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
and then falls for higher income quintiles, consistent with median voter political economy theory and what Stigler called … redistribution and a modest effect of two year led inequality …
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Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights for Optimal Tax Theory
Saez, Emmanuel - 2013
This paper proposes a new way to evaluate tax reforms, by aggregating losses and gains of different individuals using "generalized social marginal welfare weights." A tax system is optimal if no budget neutral small reform can increase the weighted sum of (money metric) gains and losses across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459827
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Can Equity and Efficiency Complement Each Other?
Blank, Rebecca M. - 2002
Economists tend to assume that redistributive transfers increase equity but cause a loss in efficiency, the so-called 'leaky bucket' effect. This paper explores situations where efficiency losses are small or where equity and efficiency might even complement each other. A simple model identifies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469895
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Concavity of Utility, Concavity of Welfare, and Redistribution of Income
Kaplow, Louis - 2003
The marginal social value of income redistribution is understood to depend on both the concavity of individuals … redistribution, as might be expected, whereas concavity of the social welfare function has a more subtle influence, one that in some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468707
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Top Income Inequality and Tax Policy
Delestre, Isaac; Kopczuk, Wojciech; Miller, Helen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The share of pre-tax income flowing to the top of the UK income distribution increased continually and substantially in the three decades leading up to the financial crisis, but has changed little since 2013. Using microdata sampled from UK tax records, we describe the nature of top incomes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210046
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Cash Transfers and Social Preferences of Children
Haushofer, Johannes; Larreboure, Magdalena; Lowes, Sara; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the effects of an unconditional cash transfer program on social preferences of children. The program allocated $1,076 to randomly selected households in rural Kenya. We measure the social preferences of 4,022 children from 1,687 households with survey questions and incentivized...
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Trade, Income Inequality, and Government Policies : Redistribution of Income or Education Subsidies?
Janeba, Eckhard - 2000
skills or not. The government influences individual decision-making by redistribution of income or by subsidizing investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471291