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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 …
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insurance and pension programs among China's rural-urban migrants. Among workers without a contract, the information …
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sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a quasi-experiment to analyze the intergenerational impact of social …
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using China's New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), one of the largest existing pension program in the world. Since its launch in … 2009, more than 400 million Chinese have enrolled in NRPS. We use two waves of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal …
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We examine the multigenerational impacts of a nationwide social pension program in China, the New Rural Pension Scheme …
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Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle …
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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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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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inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …
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