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Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms
Burdín, Gabriel - 2013
Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper revisits that long-standing debate by analyzing the interplay between compensation structure and quit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329014
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Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms
Burdín, Gabriel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper revisits that long-standing debate by analyzing the interplay between compensation structure and quit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271976
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An Empirical Analysis of Trade-Related Redistribution and the Political Viability of Free Trade
Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2014
undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of … free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the causal effect of expected redistribution associated with the US Trade …. We find that a one standard deviation increase in redistribution leads to more than a 3% point increase in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352226
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Redistribution, Horizontal Inequity, and Reranking: Direct Taxation in the UK, 1977–2020
Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2023
We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such application to the UK, and using yearly data covering 1977–2020, we find that redistributive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469820
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An Empirical Analysis of Trade-Related Redistribution and the Political Viability of Free Trade
Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of … free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the causal effect of expected redistribution associated with the US Trade …. We find that a one standard deviation increase in redistribution leads to more than a 3% point increase in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757771
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329089
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The Impact of Eliminating a Child Benefit on Birth Timing and Infant Health
Borra, Cristina; Gonzalez, Libertad; Sevilla, Almudena - 2014
We study the effects of the cancellation of a sizeable child benefit in Spain on birth timing and neonatal health. In May 2010, the government announced that a 2,500-euro universal baby bonus would stop being paid to babies born on or after January 1st, 2011. We use detailed micro data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333291
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Information, Belief Elicitation and Threshold Effects in the 5X1000 Tax Scheme: A Framed Field Experiment
Becchetti, Leonardo; Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2017
In this paper we study by means of a framed field experiment on a representative sample of the population the effect on people's charitable giving of three, substantial and procedural, elements: information provision, belief elicitation and threshold on distribution. We frame this investigation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653438
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On Event Study Designs and Distributed-Lag Models: Equivalence, Generalization and Practical Implications
Schmidheiny, Kurt; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019
We discuss important features and pitfalls of panel-data event study designs. We derive the following main results: First, event study designs and distributed-lag models are numerically identical leading to the same parameter estimates after correct reparametrization. Second, binning of effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984639
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Overstrained Citizens? The Number of Ballot Propositions and the Quality of the Decision Process in Direct Democracy
Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N. - 2019
We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from Switzerland with over 3,500 propositions, we exploit variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059129