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Human capital mobility : implications for efficiency, income distribution, and policy
Wildasin, David E. - 2014
Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358945
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Unintended consequences : can the rise of the educated class explain the revival of protectionism?
Giordani, Paolo; Mariani, Fabio - 2020
extent of redistribution. In this setting, trade liberalization is politically viable as long as the losers from trade are … may be limited political support for redistribution, and those who are left behind by globalization - namely unskilled … - by favoring the ascent of the educated class and thus eroding the political support for redistribution - may ultimately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168075
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Human capital and optimal redistribution
Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - 2014
We characterize optimal redistribution in a dynastic family model with human capital. We show how a government can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440541
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Dissecting inequality-averse preferences
Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdín, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; … - 2021
Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697782
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Why praise inequality? : public good provision, income distribution and social welfare
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808609
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Pure redistribution and the provision of public goods
Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: Economics letters 95 (2007) 3, pp. 334-338
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003476259
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The value of redistribution : natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions
Agüero, Jorge M.; Balcázar, Carlos Felipe; Maldonado … - 2017
students and district-level administrative data on mining production and the redistribution of mining taxes to local … governments, we find no effect from production. However, redistribution of mining taxes increases math test scores by 0 … increases in adult employment and health outcomes of adults and children, as key mechanisms from the redistribution. Policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704263
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Human capital externalities and the urban wage premium : two literatures and their interrelations
Halfdanarson, Benedikt (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of each of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716532
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The effect of future income uncertainty in savings decision
Gomes, Fábio A. - In: Economics letters 98 (2008) 3, pp. 269-274
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Imperfect commitment and the revelation principle : the multi-agent case with transferable utility
Evans, Robert; Reiche, Soenje - In: Economics letters 99 (2008) 3, pp. 611-614
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726286