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Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity: A comparison of the United States and Germany

Almås, Ingvild - 2008

Germany has lower posttax income inequality than the United States and hence is doing better according to a strict egalitarian fairness ideal. On the other hand, the United States is doing better than Germany according to a libertarian fairness ideal, which states that people should be held...

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Fractionalization and the size of government

Lind, Jo Thori - 2004

I study the effect of voters with a group-based social conscience. Voters care more about the well-being of those belonging to their own group than the rest of the population. Within a model of political tax determination, both fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for...

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The high-employment route to low inequality

Kenworthy, Lane - 2010

inequality in check, but their sustainability is increasingly threatened. A possible solution is high levels of employment. …

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Changing Inequality in Five Countries: The Role of Markets, Transfers and Taxes

Jäntti, Markus - 1993

Using LIS data the author explores the possibility that markets, the public sector, or demographic shifts affect the changing distribution of income among families in five industrialized countries in the 1980s.

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Noncash Benefits and Income Distribution

Steckmest, Elisabeth - 1996

This report gives the results derived from a cross-sectional analysis of the distributional effects of noncash benefits in four countries. The results of the Norwegian data suggest that the distribution of benefits influences the relative income position of household groups. The main...

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Long Run Trends in Economic Inequality in Five Countries - A Birth Cohort View

Osberg, Lars - 2000

This paper examines the level and distribution of equivalent after tax, after transfer money income in Canada, the USA … countries studied differ in the trends observed in aggregate income, poverty, polarization and income inequality. In the USA and … gains of the top decile of the UK and the USA had been transferred to the bottom decile, poverty in both countries in 1994 …

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On the Distribution of Income in Five Countries

DeNardi, Mariacristina; Ren, Liqian; Wei, Chao - 2000

The goal of this study is to look at different countries, study their redistribution policies and discuss the effects of the redistribution/incentives tradeoff. Since we want to look at countries that display different degrees of government intervention, we pick countries belonging to both...

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Transfers matter most: How changes in transfer systems of Canada and the United States explain the divergence in household poverty levels from 1974-1994

Zuberi, Dan - 2001

Three decades ago, Canada and the United States shared almost identical relative poverty and inequality levels. Yet despite experiencing similar macro-level social and economic transformations from 1974 to 1994 , the two nations have experienced diametrically opposite trends in relative...

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Trends of Poverty and Income Inequality in Cross-National Comparison

Ritakallio, Veli-Matti - 2001

Central Europe, 10% in Canada, 12.5% in the UK, and as high as 17.5% in the USA. All the countries included in the analysis … the income inequality for disposable incomes has practically not increased at all. Canada shows a parallel trend. The USA …

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The State and Poverty Alleviation in Advanced Capitalist Democracies

Moller, Stephanie; Bradley, David; Huber, Evelyne; … - 2001

We analyze the impact of the state on the incidence of poverty in the working-age population of 14 advanced capitalist democracies between 1970 and 1997 using an unbalanced panel design. We utilize poverty measures based on micro-level data from the Luxembourg Income Study in conjunction with...

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