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Welfare Policy in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia - 2010
improves the workers' outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some … upper limit for the generosity of the welfare state below which redistribution becomes less instead of more distortive …
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Incorporating Affirmative Action into the Welfare State
Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram Y.; Sadka, Efraim - 2021
In this paper, we discuss a novel aspect of affirmative action policy. We examine its redistributive role, asking whether in an egalitarian society, supplementing the tax-transfer system with an affirmative action policy would enhance social welfare
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317031
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Political Preferences for Redistribution in Sweden
Bastani, Spencer - 2017
We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971–2012 using the inverse optimal tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965938
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Globalization, Jobs, and Welfare : The Roles of Social Protection and Redistribution
Ranjan, Priya - 2015
optimal redistribution and social protection policies are in place, globalization necessarily improves social welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028782
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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121865
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The Free Movement of Inactive Citizens in the EU - A Challenge for the European Welfare State?
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2007
The EU Directive on Free Movement of 2004 extended free movement within the EU to Union citizens who are inactive and gave them access to the welfare benefits of host countries. The paper examines the extent to which these measures provoke migration to those countries with the highest levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777493
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Divided We Reform? Evidence from US Welfare Policies
Bernecker, Andreas - 2021
Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315641
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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution
Dahlberg, Matz - 2011
to reduced support for redistribution among natives. This paper exploits a nationwide program placing refugees in … increased immigrant shares on preferences for redistribution. The results show that a larger immigrant population leads to less … support for redistribution in the form of preferred social benefit levels. This reduction in support is especially pronounced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130420
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Social Long Term Care Insurance and Redistribution
Cremer, Helmuth - 2011
We study the role of social long term care (LTC) insurance when income taxation and private insurance markets are imperfect. Policy instruments include public provision of LTC as well as a subsidy on private insurance. The subsidy scheme may be linear or nonlinear. For the linear part we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124972
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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare
Lansing, Kevin J. - 2012
This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098333