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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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An empirical analysis of trade-related redistribution and the political viability of free trade

Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2014

undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of … free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the causal effect of expected redistribution associated with the US Trade …. We find that a one standard deviation increase in redistribution leads to more than a 3% point increase in the …

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Redistribution, horizontal inequity, and reranking: direct taxation in the UK, 1977-2020

Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2023

We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such application to the UK, and using yearly data covering 1977-2020, we find that redistributive...

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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, rejecting any sub-field labelling of his interests and...

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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 …

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Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany

Kuhn, Andreas - 2011

redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …

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Redistributive effect and the progressivity of taxes and benefits: evidence for the UK, 1977-2018

Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2021

We apply the Kakwani approach to decomposing redistributive effect into average rate, progressivity, and reranking components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In addition, we highlight an empirical implementation issue...

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Crime and police resources : the street crime initiative

Machin, Stephen (contributor); Marie, Olivier (contributor) - 2005

In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime work. To do so we focus on a large-scale policy intervention the Street Crime Initiative that was introduced in England and Wales in 2002. This allocated additional resources...

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Competing on good politicians

Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2009

Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a theoretical model in which ideological parties select candidates between party loyalists and experts, and allocate them into the electoral districts. Non-ideological voters, who care about national and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872713

The impact of Chernobyl on health and labour market performance in the Ukraine

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2009

Using longitudinal data from the Ukraine we examine the extent of any long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult workforce. The variation in the local area level of radiation fallout from the Chernobyl accident...

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