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. In this paper policies are negotiated in a committee by playing a dynamic voting game. The implications of this change …
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fertility with voting on public schooling expenditures. The theory is able to account for the facts mentioned above. Countries …
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expectations of high mobility are sustained (the ?American Dream?) and dampen the demand for redistribution. In so doing, it draws …
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private pension and lower income inequality than Beveridgean systems. This paper introduces a bidimensional voting model to … account for all these features. Agents differ in age, income and their ability to invest in capital market. The voting game … determines the degree of redistribution of the social security system - Bismarckian or Beveridgean- and the size of the transfer …
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Market work per person is roughly 10 percent higher in the U.S. than in Sweden. However, if we include the work carried out in home production, the total amount of work differs by only 1%. I set up a model with home production and show that differences in policy - mainly taxes - can account for...
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redistribution, since a decrease in current interest rates favors agents with below-average wealth. By the same token---and as is …
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This paper studies the optimality of a minimum wage law when it is used, jointly with a distortionary tax-transfer scheme, to redistribute income among agents with different marginal productivity. We build a dynamic and stochastic general equilibrium model with a Ramsey planner making decisions...
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