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their effort, it will chose low redistribution and low taxes. In equilibrium effort will be high, the role of luck limited …
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This paper estimates the total value that individuals derive from their state's tax-and-transfer program, and shows how this value varies by income. The paper decomposes this total value into two components: redistributive value, which is due to predictable changes in income (and family...
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-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …
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redistribution. Approximately 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive, customized information on U …
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support for redistribution, in contrast to the predictions from standard theories of redistributive preferences. We replicate … have most moved against income redistribution are the elderly and African-Americans. We find little evidence that these … consistent with the data on elderly trends is that older Americans worry that redistribution will come at their expense, in …
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enforcement. Optimal enforcement strategies are developed for both the anti-discrimination and the earnings redistribution models … redistribution model …
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In this paper, we examine the effect of the EITC on the employment and income of single mothers with children. We provide the first comprehensive estimates of this central safety net policy on the full distribution of after-tax and transfer income. We use a quasi-experiment approach, using...
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I present new quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between tax policies and the distribution of income. I focus on the twentieth century United States, and on the personal income tax, since its inception. I study three major policy events that, as the existing literature shows,...
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This paper re-examines the connection between unions and wage inequality, focusing on three questions: (1) How does the union wage effect vary across the wage distribution? (2) What is the effect of unionism on the overall variance of wages at the end of the 1980s? (3) How much of the increase...
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The purpose of the present note is to explore the structure of optimal income taxation/redistribution in an economy …, of course, an additional incentive for income redistribution from wealthy to poor citizens is created and the logical …
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