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Inter-ethnic redistribution and human investments

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009

This article analyzes income redistribution in the inter-ethnic context. The model shows that redistribution in favor … demonstrates that income redistribution, although financed by taxes levied on the skilled, generates a mechanism that, via its …

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Inequality, democracy, institutional quality, and fiscal redistribution

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2007

redistribution and lowers institutional quality. The effect of the former is to increase productive investment, and the effect of the … redistribution, especially in non-democratic countries. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278272

Redistributive preferences, redistribution, and inequality: Evidence from a panel of OECD countries

Kuhn, Andreas - 2012

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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Exclusion, Marginalization and Peripheralization: Conceptual concerns in the study of urban inequalities

Bernt, Matthias; Colini, Laura - 2013

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Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life

van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten; Lopéz, Marta - 2007

We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815-2000, and we merge these with historical data on...

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Disability-based labour market inequalities

Pettinicchio, David; Maroto, Michelle - 2024

Despite changing attitudes around disability over time, people with disabilities still face large barriers to labour market participation. We apply a sociological framework that considers both supply- and demand-side explanations for labour market inequality to help understand the continuing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015054234

Sustainability of Public Debt and Budget Deficit: Panel cointegration analysis for the European Union Member countries

Prohl, Silika; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

In this study, we analyse the sustainability of fiscal policy of EU member countries within the panel cointegration and …

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Immigration, fertility and human capital: A model of economic decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010

redistribution, do not compete with immigrants in the labor market, and do not compete with immigrants for publicly financed income …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335967

Inequality in land ownership, the emergence of human capital promoting institutions, and the great divergence

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2006

This paper suggests that inequality in the distribution of land ownership adversely affected the emergence of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public schooling) and thus the pace and the nature of the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, contributing to the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318968

Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence

Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012

This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and enduring decline over time in Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The relevant macroeconomic variables are identified by systematically...

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