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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States Around the World
Bartels, Charlotte - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823316
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Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems : Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil
Robalino, David A. - 2011
We develop a model of job search and use it to assess the effects that the Brazilian unemployment benefit system has on exit rates from unemployment. In our setup, unemployed workers receive job offers from the formal and informal sectors and decide whether to accept them or wait. Only jobs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130452
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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency : An Experimental Study
Großer, Jens - 2011
' policy choices by transferring money to them. We observe very high levels of redistribution – even when transfers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134222
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Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-Being
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2010
of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136943
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Efficient Redistribution : Comparing Basic Income with Unemployment Benefits
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2010
We compare two systems of income redistribution: unemployment benefits (UB) and basic income (BI). First, for a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136950
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Unequal Inequalities : Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
Duncan, Denvil - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099109
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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income
Giertz, Seth H. - 2012
This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under …-level redistribution are substantial, but state action may still be preferred to a federal policy that is at odds with preferences of a … state pursuing additional redistribution, but not a cost at the national level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099765
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Migration, Redistribution and the Universal Welfare Model
Andersen, Torben M. - 2012
capturing the rationale and essence of the above-mentioned redistribution model and considers its sensitivity and robustness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104653
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The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation
Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it … income redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776006
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Income Transfers, Welfare and Family Decisions
Andaluz, Joaquin - 2007
This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce situations, and on family decisions. We assume three generations within the family. We develop a sequential game that, in a first stage, determines the optimum level of the transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776754