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We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...
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that the choices of the proposers and the responders are consistent with social identity theory (higher offers and lower …
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Income equality and trust seem to go along with several other ingredients of social capital as determinants of economic growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank and by The Standardized World Income Inequality...
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conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for …. At an aggregate level, a rise in redistribution induces a compression effect on the distribution of pre-tax returns. In … the financial market, I identify general equilibrium trickle-up externalities that provide a force for more redistribution …
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In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …
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opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample who observe worker outcomes and … lucky opportunities. Our findings have implications for models that seek to understand and predict redistribution attitudes …, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends …
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The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...
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This paper examines the effects of a unilateral reform of the redistribution policy in an economy open to international …-reforming trading partner, the unilateral redistribution policy reform resembles a unilateral increase in trade costs leading to a …
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This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically … concentration in pre- and after-tax income without additional redistribution via progressive taxes. It is, however, crucial to …
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social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The … redistribution game with utilitarian governments and mobile welfare beneficiaries, we compare the outcomes of imitative behavior …
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