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On the emissions-inequality trade-off in energy taxation : evidence on the German car fuel tax
Nikodinoska, Dragana; Schröder, Carsten - 2015
By using estimates from an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we investigate how the German energy tax on car fuels changes the private households-CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the tax implies a trade-off between the aim to reduce...
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The Brazilian state's redistributive role : changes and persistence at the beginning of the 21st century
Silveira, Fernando Gaiger da; Palomo, Theo Ribas - 2023
This paper examines the evolution of the redistributive role of the State in Brazil at the beginning of the 21st century. For this purpose, we compute the marginal effects of the cash transfers, taxes, and in-kind benefits on inequality using the Lerman-Yitzhaki progressivity index. Our main...
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Der flächendeckende Mindestlohn
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - 2014
Die Einführung des flächendeckenden gesetzlichen Mindestlohns von 8,50 Euro ist ein großes, mit vielen sozialpolitischen Risiken verbundenes Experiment. Dieser Übersichtsartikel zeigt, dass weder die unterschiedlichen theoretischen Erklärungsmodelle noch die große Anzahl empirischer...
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Taxes and the division of social status
Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2023
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Rethinking commodity taxation : the new status redistribution channel
Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2024
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Suspicious success : cheating, inequality acceptance, and political preferences
Klimm, Felix - 2018
Supporters of left-wing parties typically place more emphasis on redistributive policies than right-wing voters. I investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I...
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Are the upwardly mobile more left-wing?
Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria - 2023
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Self-serving bias in redistribution choices : accounting for beliefs and norms
Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2023
People with higher-incomes tend to support less redistribution than lower-income people. This has been attributed not … underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure … each of these mechanisms and compare their mediating roles in the relationship between status and redistribution. In our …
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Ruled by robots : preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices
Chugunova, Marina; Luhan, Wolfgang J. - 2023
negatively to redistribution decisions that do not fit any fairness ideals. Our results suggest that even in the realm of moral … decisions are mainly driven by own material interests and fairness ideals. For the latter, players display remarkable …
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
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