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Inequality and voting in fragile countries: Evidence from Mozambique
Bove, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; … - 2024
economic inequality affects voting and other forms of political participation. This evidence is largely driven by advanced …. In line with prior theoretical expectations, we find a negative association between inequality and voting for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548602
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The political participation of Africa's youth: Turnout, partisanship, and protest
Resnick, Danielle; Casale, Daniela - 2011
The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa. Today, as the region faces a growing 'youth bulge' that is disproportionately burdened by un- and underemployment, capturing the votes of this demographic is becoming more important than ever before....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280251
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Deflecting my burden, hindering redistribution: How elites influence tax legislation in Latin America
Bogliaccini, Juan A.; Luna, Juan Pablo - 2016
This paper proposes to understand a singular but salient factor that enables the wealthy to deflect their tax burden downwards: elites' political leverage to shape legislation via their capacity to influence political actors and policy outcomes. The analysis sheds light on alternative mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532421
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Party system institutionalization and reliance on personal income tax: Exploring the relationship using new data
von Schiller, Armin - 2017
This paper explores the effect of party system institutionalization on the reliance of tax systems on the personal income tax. As a first step, the paper re-examines the relationship between party system institutionalization and taxation patterns employing the recently launched Government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654025
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Regime type, inequality, and redistributive transfers in developing countries
Dodlova, Marina; Giolbas, Anna - 2017
The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model … that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher … inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. Using the new data on Non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654023
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Worker retraining and transfer payments: The political economy of social protection
Jain, Sanjay - 2017
redistribution and retraining - that arguably characterize many reform packages. We analyse the interaction of compensatory … redistribution and retraining programmes, and demonstrate that the provision of redistributive programmes might distort incentives …. Conversely, it may be possible for an economic reform to win political support in the absence of compensatory redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654037
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Can a populist political party bear the risk of granting complete property rights? Electoral outcomes of Mexico's second land reform
de Janvry, Alain; Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco; Sadoulet, … - 2011
The Mexican land reform, one of the most sweeping in the world, proceeded in two steps: it granted peasants highly incomplete property rights on more than half of the Mexican territory starting in 1914, creating strong economic and political dependence for beneficiaries on the ruling political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280072
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Income mobility in Ecuador: New evidence from individual income tax returns
Cano, Liliana - 2015
This paper presents new evidence on the study of income mobility in Ecuador over the period 2004 - 11. We utilize longitudinal data of individual income tax returns to measure income mobility both at the top and at the middle of the income distribution, and we find three main empirical results....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418639
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SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model: Recent developments
Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Barnes, Helen; McLennan, … - 2016
This paper provides an account of a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model - SAMOD - which has been developed for use by government over the past ten years. The two datasets that underpin the current version of SAMOD are introduced, and the model's tax and benefit policies are described...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653927
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Updating NAMOD: A Namibian tax-benefit microsimulation model
Wright, Gemma Clare; Noble, Michael; Barnes, Helen; … - 2016
This paper provides an account of a Nambian tax-benefit microsimulation model - NAMOD - which has been developed for use by government. Following a section on the importance of social security in Namibia and recent related studies, the paper outlines the tax-benefit policies that are included...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653955