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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2017
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...
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Do social policies harm employment and growth?
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2003
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Optimal carbon taxation and horizontal equity : a welfare theoretic approach with application to German household data
Hänsel, Martin C.; Franks, Max; Kalkuhl, Matthias; … - 2021
We develop a model of optimal carbon taxation and redistribution taking into account horizontal equity concerns by …-efficient households if and only if social inequality aversion is sufficiently high. We further find that redistribution of carbon tax …
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Inequality and the state : comparing U.S. and German preferences
Corneo, Giacomo - 2000
political redistribution in each country. In West Germany the homo oeconomicus effect , the social rivalry effect and the public …Survey data from the United States, West Germany and East Germany are analyzed to compare individual attitudes towards … effect disappears. In East Germany both the second and the third effect disappear. …
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Measuring intra-generational redistribution in PAYG pension schemes
Klos, Jonas; Krieger, Tim; Stöwhase, Sven - 2020
In this paper, we propose a novel index for measuring intra-generational redistribution in pay-as-you-go pension …-generational redistribution isolated from possible inter-generational redistribution. We use contribution records of approx. 100,000 German … individuals, who progressed into retirement in 2007-2015, to measure the level of intra-generational redistribution in the German …
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Quantifying optimal growth policy
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - 2010
The optimal mix of growth policies is determined within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and accounts for transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...
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Should green governments give priority to environmental policies over growth-enhancing policies?
Economides, George (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper studies the properties of second-best optimal policy in a standard general equilibrium model of growth augmented with renewable natural resources. The government chooses its policy instruments (the income tax rate and the allocation of collected tax revenues between public investment...
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What kind of EU fiscal capacity? : evidence from a randomized survey experiment in five European countries in times of Corona
Beetsma, Roel; Burgoon, Brian; Nicoli, Francesco; … - 2020
fine in the case of non-compliance. Further, there is broad acceptance of long-run redistribution towards poorer countries …
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Affecting public support for economic policies : evidence from a survey experiment about rent control in Germany
Dolls, Mathias; Schüle, Paul; Windsteiger, Lisa - 2023
We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent …
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Responsibility and redistribution : the case of first best taxation
Tungodden, Bertil - 2001
It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors within our control are partly determined by factors beyond our control. In this paper, we suggest that one plausible view is to keep us responsible for the parts of the...
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