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A model of endogenous growth is presented, based on productive public expenditures, and featuring some degree of income inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital taxation that relies, both on voting and on "influence...
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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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inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …
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This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of capital taxation in advanced economies with a focus on the Swedish experience. We synthesize the existing theoretical literature, present facts about the capital stock and its distribution, review current capital tax practices and...
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CEE both former members of the Communist parties and their children have stronger preferences for redistribution than the … rest of the population, in Russia former CPSU members do not exhibit stronger preferences for redistribution - at the same … time, their children support redistribution. …
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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 …
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income and income inequality. In addition, we use randomized information treatments to prime participants into competing …
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agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution …. -- perceptions of income distribution ; limited information ; preferences for redistribution ; field experiment … posits that systematic biases arise from the extrapolation of information extracted from reference groups. A tailored …
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preferences for redistribution. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous change in severity of the infection rate at the county level …, we show that, contrary to some theoretical expectations, the worse the crisis, the lower the support for redistribution …
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. -- tax policy ; inequality ; redistribution ; partisan politics ; political economy …
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