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Distributive Politics and Economic Growth
Alesina, Alberto - 1991
relationship between the political influence of the two groups and the level of taxation, public investment, redistribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475348
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Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? Theory and Evidence
Persson, Torsten - 1991
Is inequality harmful for growth? We suggest that it is. To summarize our main argument: in a society where distributional conflict is more important, political decisions are more likely to produce economic policies that allow private individuals to appropriate less of the returns to growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475421
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Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract
Benabou, Roland - 2004
The distribution of human capital and income lies at the center of a nexus of forces that shape a country's economic, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyze these interactions and their growth consequences. Five main issues are addressed. First, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468322
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How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments
Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2013
redistribution. Approximately 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive, customized information on U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459796
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Whose Preferences Matter for Redistribution : Cross-country Evidence
Maréchal, Michel André; Cohn, Alain; Yusof, Jeffrey; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens …
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Redistribution through Education and Other Transfer Mechanisms
Hanushek, Eric - 2001
attendance, labor supply, wage determination, and aggregate production, which is used to compare alternative redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470128
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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
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Taxes and Income Distribution in Chile : Some Unpleasant Redistributive Arithmetic
Engel, Eduardo M.R.A. - 1998
redistribution through progressivity of the tax system is rather limited. By contrast, for parameter values observed in Chile, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471983
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Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, The Swedish Way
Bjorklund, Anders - 1994
Sweden has a remarkable record in reducing inequality and virtually eliminating poverty. This paper shows that: 1) Sweden achieved its egalitarian income distribution and eliminated poverty largely because of its system of earnings and income determination, not because of the homogeneity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473954
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The Effect of Unions on the Distribution of Wages : Redistribution or Relabelling?
Card, David - 1992
This paper re-examines the connection between unions and wage inequality, focusing on three questions: (1) How does the union wage effect vary across the wage distribution? (2) What is the effect of unionism on the overall variance of wages at the end of the 1980s? (3) How much of the increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474772