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Federal unemployment reinsurance and local labor-market policies
Ignaszak, Marek; Jung, Philip; Küster, Keith - 2020
Consider a union of atomistic member states, each faced with idiosyncratic business-cycle shocks. Private cross-border risk-sharing is limited, giving a role to a federal unemployment-based transfer scheme. Member states control local labor-market policies, giving rise to a trade-off between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316758
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Migration, self-selection, and income distributions : evidence from rural and urban China
Xing, Chunbing - 2010
As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or urban areas. The nature of the effects depends crucially on who are migrating and their migrating...
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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 … 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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Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions
Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2022
strengthens the preference for redistribution. Labor mobility frictions are instrumental in this mechanism. …
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Minimum wage and tolerance for high incomes
Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2023
We suggest that stabilizing the baseline income can make low-wage workers more tolerant towards high income earners. We present evidence of this attitude in the UK by exploiting the introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW), which institutionally sets a baseline pay reducing the risk of...
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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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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...
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Stimulating local public employment : do general grants work?
Lundqvist, Heléne; Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2010
The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...
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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 …
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Mobility, taxation and welfare
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2011
Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare analysis of mobility often fails, however, to account for the cost of the variability of periodic incomes around permanent incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of...
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