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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...

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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : Us vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias - 2010

stabilizers in Eastern and Southern Europe are much lower than in Central and Northern European countries. We also investigate …

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Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences : Evidence for Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...

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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : US Vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias - 2009

in Eastern and Southern Europe are much lower than in Central and Northern European countries. We also investigate …

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019

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Demographic Change and the European Income Distribution

Dolls, Mathias - 2018

This paper assesses the effect of key demographic changes (population ageing and upskilling) that are expected by 2030 on the income distribution in the EU-27 and examines the potential of tax-benefit systems to counterbalance negative developments. Theory predicts that population ageing should...

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Inequality and Happiness : Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021

happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …

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Work and Leisure in the U.S. And Europe : Why so Different?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

the U.S. and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European "culture," but … the U.S. and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society …

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Why Doesn'T the Us Have a European-Style Welfare System?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

these factors appear to explain the differences between the US and Europe. Instead, the differences appear to be the result …

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