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Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...

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Is there such thing as middle class values? : class differences, values and political orientations in Latin America

López-Calva, Luis F.; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, Florencia - 2012

Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...

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On the equilibrium and welfare consequences of "keeping up with the Joneses"

Gavrel, Frédéric; Rebière, Thérèse - 2015

This paper provides an analysis of the social consequences of people seeking to keep up with the Joneses. All individuals attempt to reach a higher rank than the Joneses, including the Joneses themselves. This attitude gives rise to an equilibrium in which all individuals have equal utilities...

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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 …

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Crime, the criminal justice system, and socioeconomic inequality

Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2016

inequality in the U.S. without generating much benefit in terms of lower crime rates. …

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Tony Atkinson and his legacy

Brandolini, Andrea; Jenkins, Stephen; Micklewright, John - 2017

Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

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Intergenerational earnings persistence and economic inequality in the long-run : evidence from French cohorts, 1931-1975

Lefranc, Arnaud - 2018

-sectional inequality rather than long-term changes in the degree of intergenerational persistence. …

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Urban consumption inequality in China, 1995-2013

Xia, Qingjie; Li, Shi; Song, Lina - 2017

We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …

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Repeated shocks and preferences for redistribution

Gualtieri, Giovanni; Nicolini, Marcella; Sabatini, Fabio - 2019

A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...

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Minimum wage and tolerance for high incomes

Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2023

for the Conservative Party. As far as tolerance for high incomes is related to tolerance of inequality, our results may …

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