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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/10011611222
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Party system institutionalization and reliance on personal income tax : exploring the relationship using new data
Schiller, Armin von - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2017
income tax. As a first step, the paper re-examines the relationship between party system institutionalization and taxation … support for two claims: first, that taxation is best understood as a problem of credible commitment, particularly where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597079
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Tax-benefit microsimulation model in Rwanda : a feasibility study
Hakizimana, Naphtal; Karangwa, John; Lastunen, Jesse; … - 2022
This paper assesses the feasibility of developing a tax and benefit microsimulation model in Rwanda. Tax-benefit microsimulation can be used to explore ways in which national development goals can be achieved in a cost-effective manner, and to assess the distributional effects of more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269674
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Fiscal capacity in non-democratic states : the origins and expansion of income tax
Andersson, Per F. - 2021
investments in taxation. In order not to risk being deposed by his or her elite supporters, a ruler needs to guarantee that new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798707
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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/10011517306
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Misuse of institutions : lessons from Transition
Poliščuk, Leonid - 2010
The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused, i.e., applied or resorted to for reasons which have little in common with their intended or anticipated purpose. In such incidences institutions become sources of private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662276
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The political economy of food price policy : the case of Kenya
Nzuma, Jonathan Makau - 2013
This paper evaluates Kenya's food price crisis over 2002 - 11 using a political economy approach. Kenya's food prices have been high and volatile relative to world food prices. Moreover, domestic food markets are highly integrated while about 30 per cent of the changes in world market prices are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715851
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Support policies for renewables : instrument choice and instrument change from a public choice perspective
Gawel, Erik; Strunz, Sebastian; Lehmann, Paul - 2016
This paper frames the transition towards clean energies as a sequential process of instrument choice and instrument change. First, regulators decide how to initiate the transition away from fossil energies. Here, support policies for renewable electricity are politically convenient because they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440947
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Women legislators and economic performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last 20 years. While there is evidence that raising the share of women politicians has substantive impacts on the composition of government spending, there is scarcely any evidence of how it influences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844125
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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/10011596960