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of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own …
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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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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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lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system …
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This paper holistically addresses the effective (relative) income tax contribution of a given in-come (or, wealth) group. The widely acclaimed standard in public policy is the absolute benefaction of a given income group in filling up the fiscal coffers. Instead, we focus on the ratio of the...
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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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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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intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether …
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