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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics
Morrow, John - 2013
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
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The Welfare State and Migration : A Dynamic Analysis of Political Coalitions
Razin, Assaf - 2015
We develop a dynamic political-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three distinct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031031
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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134300
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Why Doesn'T the Us Have a European-Style Welfare System?
Alesina, Alberto F.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021
European countries are much more generous to the poor relative to the US level of generosity. Economic models suggest that redistribution is a function of the variance and skewness of the pre-tax income distribution, the volatility of income (perhaps because of trade shocks), the social costs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232887
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State Versus Private Ownership
Shleifer, Andrei - 2021
costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the dynamic vitality' of free … enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s failed to see the dangers of socialism in part because they focused on … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239155
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Pervasive Shortages Under Socialism
Shleifer, Andrei; Vishny, Robert W. - 2021
We present a new theory of pervasive shortages under socialism, based on the assumption that the planners are self … profit personally. The theory suggests that an increase in the official price of a good might reduce output. The theory also … suggests that market socialism is bound to fail even without computational complexities facing the planners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228630
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The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States : Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options
Autor, David H. - 2012
Two ailments limit the effectiveness and threaten the long-term viability of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance program (SSDI). First, the program is ineffective in assisting the vast majority of workers with less severe disabilities to reach their employment potential or earn their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113155
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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2011
Beginning with the 1996 federal welfare reform law many of the central safety net programs in the U.S. eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected eligibility not only for cash welfare assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117395
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Whither Poverty in Great Britain and the United States? The Determinants of Changing Poverty and Whether Work Will Work
Dickens, Richard; Ellwood, David T. - 2021
Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty levels in Britain and the US based on a set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218801
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Variations in Infant Mortality Rates Among Counties in the United States : The Roles of Social Policies and Programs
Grossman, Michael; Jacobowitz, Steven - 2021
The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the causes of the rapid decline in the infant mortality rate in the United States in the period after 1963. The roles of four public policies are considered: Medicaid, subsidized family planning services for low-income women, maternal and infant care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243391