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between income inequality, group-specific income redistribution, and subjective well-being among China’s urban, rural, and …Using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018, this paper analyzes the relationship …. More importantly, the group-specific redistribution inherent in the Hukou system that widens the income gap between urban …
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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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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 goal of this research is to explore whether actual lottery revenues are sensitive to scarcity, as measured by intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Exogenous paydays of social security benefits are employed to generate the intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Using two...
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We examine forecast accuracy and efficiency of the Social Security Administration’s projections for cost rate, trust fund balance, trust fund ratio made during 1980-2020 with horizons up to 95 years. We find that the reported deterioration in the accuracy of the forecasts during 2010’s has...
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Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) social security schemes in the OECD countries are facing solvency problems, as people are living longer and birth rates have declined. Postponing the full retirement age (FRA), when retirees are entitled to full pension, has been proposed as a solution. This effectively...
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How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
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phenomenon across the globe. Upward-biased perceptions are associated with lower preferences for redistribution and have direct … redistribution preferences, is independent of socio-demographic characteristics, robust to measurement errors in social surveys, and …
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consider some of the implications of globalization for policy design, both within federal systems and across countries …. Although globalization poses new challenges for fiscal systems, it does not necessarily imply that redistributive policy … becomes untenable and possibly enhances the need for redistribution …
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challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … improving by using a redistributive linear income tax if redistribution is initially not too large. We finally derive the … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …
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