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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
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The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical …
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This paper critically analyses the strongly subjectivist approach to exploitation theory recently proposed by Matsuo ([7]), in the context of general convex economies with heterogeneous agents. It is proved that the Fundamental Marxian Theorem is not preserved in his subjectivist approach,...
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social preferences in different economic systems. We introduce inequality-averse and inefficiency-averse agents responding to … ; Inequality ; Inefficiency ; Ideological Transmission ; Economic Transitions …
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augmenting a standard model of inequality aversion. Overall, conditional on exhibiting sufficiently-strong social preferences, we … effect of income inequality on redistribution decisions, we delve into the history behind one's income to isolate the effect …
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positive GDP growth of China, which suggests that within-country inequality in the world's most populous country might have not …GDP contractions are typically associated with within-country income inequality increases. While official income … inequality data for 2020 will not be available for about two years, the already available employment data for 2020 shows that the …
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A key challenge for policymakers is how to design methods to select beneficiaries of social programs when income is volatile and the target population is dynamic. We evaluate a traditional static proxy-means test (PMT) and three policy-relevant alternatives. We use a unique panel dataset of a...
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Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5 …,600 estimated Gini coefficient, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last … curve, with inequality rising in most countries prior to the 1990s, and falling during the early 21st Century, at least …
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male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings …
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This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries …
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