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Redistributive income taxation, outsourcing and foreign direct investment
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - In: Economics letters 110 (2011) 2, pp. 86-89
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009241692
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Equality under threat by the talented : evidence from worker-managed firms
Burdín, Gabriel - 2013
Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper revisits that long-standing debate by analyzing the interplay between compensation structure and quit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229493
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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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In the eye of the beholder : subjective inequality measures and the demand for redistribution
Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
occupational wage inequality and their demand for redistribution. Most importantly, the framework explicitly allows for the … perceptions of how wages are determined in reality all simultaneously influence the demand for redistribution. Finally, I show … that subjective inequality measures and the demand for redistribution are substantially significant predictors of both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003893801
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Demand for redistribution, support for the welfare state, and party identification in Austria
Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals … inequality which they perceive to exist. The empirical analysis also shows that the demand for redistribution is strongly … associated not only with variables describing self-interested motives for redistribution, but also with perceptions of and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900890
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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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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719204
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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