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This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area...
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Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …
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I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … favor lower (higher) levels of redistribution. …
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welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is … ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other hand …, natives may demand more redistribution as an insurance against labour market risks brought by immigration. In this chapter, we …
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effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially … higher demand for redistribution more than 50 years later. …
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redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We … ; emigration ; redistribution ; brain drain ; education …
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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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capturing the rationale and essence of the above-mentioned redistribution model and considers its sensitivity and robustness to … ; active labour market policy ; redistribution …
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inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. -- redistribution …
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redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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