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In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this …
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typically led to an expansion in redistribution, at least in the small sample of episodes studied. Similarly, and more …
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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 …. -- offshoring : import competition ; wage bargaining ; oligopoly ; redistribution …
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I propose a model of income redistribution in an open-economy environment. The world consists of a finite number of … income. While tax competition limits the extent to which redistribution is possible-as compared to the closed-economy outcome …
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-globalist parties as well as for Brexit. A policy implication of our study is that governments may use up-front redistribution to gain …
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capture serves as a redistribution tool when direct lump-sum transfers across regions are unfeasible. …
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redistribution. Finally, we show that redistribution and diversity are linked non-linearly: moderate levels of diversity impede … redistribution, while higher levels offset the negative effect. …
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This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...
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find that Germans systematically underestimate their true place in the world’s income distribution, but that correcting …
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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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