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impacts on public opinion are important enough to influence policy is unclear. Many scholars argue that Canada is an exception … dramatic growth in the ethnic and cultural diversity of Canada's immigrant inflows in recent decades, but the extent of this … case the estimated effects are small. Our study thus supports the view that Canada's experience stands as an example in …
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and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits …
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This paper uses a laboratory experiment to explore individuals' motivations for redistribution. The laboratory results … show that as income uncertainty diminishes, participants become more extreme in their preferences for redistribution. The … findings suggest that for most people, the motivation for redistribution is financial self-interest - namely as insurance …
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If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R and D because it … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …
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A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We … ground acceleration registered during each shock with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution we show that … inequalities should be levelled by redistribution. The shocks, however, are not all alike. We find that only the last three shakes …
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distribution of income. Public support for the extent of redistribution typically depends on the perceived causes of income … inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution … are much less prevalent. These results indicate that fairness views and attitudes towards redistribution change …
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provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …
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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 …
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This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and...
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lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system …
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