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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

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …