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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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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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How will international integration affect welfare policies? This paper considers the possibilities of financing public sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general (wage) taxation in an economy which becomes more integrated in international product markets. Even...
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Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...
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We compare two systems of income redistribution: unemployment benefits (UB) and basic income (BI). First, for a simple …
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of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own … income ; redistribution ; basic income ; unemployment benefits ; happiness ; well-being …
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Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? We provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result clarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. If we maximize total...
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which this ratio increases coincide with those in which Democrats rule the government and there is more redistribution from … the power are characterized by a fall in the ratio and less redistribution from the rich to the rest of the population …
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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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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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