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Electoral turnout and income redistribution by the state: A cross-national analysis of the developed democracies
Mahler, Vincent A. - 2006
This paper explores the sources of variation in state redistribution across 13 developed democracies over the 1979-2000 period, drawing upon data from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the Luxembourg Income Study and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335368
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Violent conflict and inequality
Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010
focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271373
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Social Identity and Group Lending
Chatterjee, Prabirendra; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2004
The success of joint liability programs depends on nature and composition of borrowing groups. Group formation is a costly process and in our model these costs vary with the social identity of group partners. We show that risk heterogeneity in a borrowing group may arise due to the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260680
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Redistribution policy and inequality reduction in OECD countries: What has changed in two decades?
Immervoll, Herwig; Richardson, Linda - 2011
We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or accelerated the trend towards greater income disparities in the past 20-25 years. In most countries, inequality among 'non-elderly' households has widened during most phases of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335372
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Inequality, public opinion, and redistribution
Kenworthy, Lane; McCall, Leslie - 2007
According to the 'median-voter' hypothesis, greater inequality in the market distribution of earnings or income tends to produce greater generosity in redistributive policy. We outline the steps in the causal chain specified by the hypothesis and attempt to assess these steps empirically. Prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335397
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Can redistribution contribute to pollution reductions? An empirical evaluation
Drosdowski, Thomas - 2006
We test the hypothesis that more progressive redistribution contributes to emission reductions with the aid of fixed-effects estimation technique. Using a panel of 16 West European countries over the period 1990-00, we regress emission levels of four different air pollutants on two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335425
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Comparing government redistribution across countries: The problem of second-order effects
Jesuit, David K.; Mahler, Vincent A. - 2010
The traditional way of measuring government redistribution across countries is to compare the income households report that they receive from private sources with the income they receive after government transfers have been added and taxes and social insurance contributions deducted....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335474
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Inequality in transition countries: The contribution of markets and government taxes and transfers
Giammatteo, Michele - 2006
This paper examines inequality patterns in the 1990s in Poland, Russia and Hungary. We consider three different definitions of income and analyse the contributions to inequality of their main components using LIS micro data. Inequality is measured using the Gini and Theil indices, which in turn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335582
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Who gives aid to whom and when? Aid accelerations, shocks and policies
Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - 2011
We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291892
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Conflict experiences and household expectations on recovery: Survey evidence from northern Uganda
Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - 2010
We analyse the role of mass violent conflict in influencing individual expectations. We hypothesise that individuals are likely to report negative expectations if they were exposed to conflict events in the past. We combine individual and household level data from the Northern Uganda Livelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285753