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Incentives, globalization, and redistribution

Ferey, Antoine; Haufler, Andreas; Perroni, Carlo - 2022 - This version: July 2022

in income concentration. When performance-based contracts are needed to incentivize effort, redistribution through …

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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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Government expenditure in the DINA framework : allocation methods and consequences for post-tax income inequality

Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2022

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation of the entirety of government expenditure to individuals. About half of government expenditure in the United States takes the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g.,...

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Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods

Krieger, Tommy - 2020

We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019

life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...

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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget

König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...

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Automation, taxes and transfers with international rivalry

Tyers, Rodney; Zhou, Yixiao - 2022

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"Robin Hood in reverse" : persistence and barriers to redistributive fiscal policy

Cavalcante, Pedro - 2021

new institutionalism theory, employed a process-tracing method to explore the causes of the continuity of unequal income …

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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants

Corneo, Giacomo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … redistribution, both the welfare-magnet effect from more redistributive countries and the propensity of the high-skilled to settle in … redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country …

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