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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2018
lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795062
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Are intellectual property rights fair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415064
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Not that basic : how level, design and context matter for the redistributive outcomes of universal basic income
Aerts, Elise; Marx, Ive; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2023
Proponents of a basic income (BI) claim that it could bring significant reductions in financial poverty, on top of many other benefits, including greatly reduced administrative complexity and cost. Using microsimulation analysis in a comparative two-country setting, we show that the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013546022
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Basic income advocates, sober up
Marx, Ive - 2024
Basic income advocates see a universal income grant, no questions asked, as bringing many potential benefits, not in the least as an ironclad protection against poverty, if set high enough. It is hard to know with any certainty what a world with a sizeable basic income would look like but we can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463595
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Social spending generosity and income inequality: a dynamic panel approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
on pre-government income inequality hints at substantial disincentive effects. -- social benefits ; redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007489
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Inequality, transfers and growth : new evidence from the economic transition in Poland
Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002
Polish experience and is also consistent with recent work in growth theory which suggests that redistribution that reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406724
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401020
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On the inefficiency of inequality
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"A number of studies have examined the implications of preference interdependence. This paper models utility as depending on other people's consumption levels and shows that welfare declines with inequality, equilibrium inequality is inefficient, and the optimal intervention leads to a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002345036
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Increasing income inequality : productivity, bargaining and skill-upgrading
Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - 2010
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an income distribution to change. The major benefit of the model is that it can accommodate shocks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941761
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Redistribution policy and inequality reduction in OECD countries : what has changed in two decades?
Immervoll, Herwig; Richardson, Linda - 2011
We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or … redistribution systems in place, greater inequality automatically leads to more redistribution, even if no policy action is taken. We … redistribution. Between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, the redistributive strength of tax-benefit systems then weakened in many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488409