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corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model … model perceived corruption influences people's preferences for redistribution through two channels. On the one hand it … undermines trust in government, which reduces people's support for redistribution. On the other hand, more corruption decreases …
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redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …
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The concept of equality of opportunity (EOp) goes back to Roemer (1993, 1998) who argues that a society shall guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that access into actual advantage by the application of...
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of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own …
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We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or … redistribution systems in place, greater inequality automatically leads to more redistribution, even if no policy action is taken. We … redistribution. Between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, the redistributive strength of tax-benefit systems then weakened in many …
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agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies …
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This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...
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intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether …
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different normative focus of the two approaches and show that benefits have other aims than redistribution. Finally, our country …
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occupational wage inequality and their demand for redistribution. Most importantly, the framework explicitly allows for the … perceptions of how wages are determined in reality all simultaneously influence the demand for redistribution. Finally, I show … that subjective inequality measures and the demand for redistribution are substantially significant predictors of both …
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