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I Perceive Therefore I Demand : The Formation of Inequality Perceptions and Demand for Redistribution
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2019
This paper investigates the link between inequality and demand for redistribution by looking at how individuals form … their perceptions of inequality. Most of the literature analyzing demand for redistribution has focused on objective … inequality, rather than subjective perceptions of inequality. However, a model that links demand for redistribution to subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865453
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Global Inequality : The Implications of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
Lakner, Christoph - 2017
In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income growth was largest for the global top 1 percent and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968216
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Should Income Inequality Be Reduced and Who Should Benefit? Redistributive Preferences in Europe and Central Asia
Cojocaru, Alexandru - 2017
This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … than in 2006 in transition countries. Support for redistribution toward specific groups is highest for the disabled and the … state group of transition countries. Regarding redistribution to specific groups, self-interest appears to be an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972504
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Fiscal Policy in Colombia : Tapping its Potential for a More Equitable Society
Moller, Lars Christian - 2017
OECD, which exhibits much lower income disparities, mainly as a result of effective policies of fiscal redistribution. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975187
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Global Redistribution of Income
Bourguignon, Francois - 2016
with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748019
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Decomposing Changes in Income Inequality into Vertical and Horizontal Redistribution and Reranking, with Applications to China and Vietnam
Wagstaff, Adam - 2017
devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966156
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Distributional Effects of Tobacco Taxation : A Comparative Analysis
Fuchs, Alan - 2019
Tobacco taxes have positive impacts on health outcomes. However, policy makers often hesitate to use them because of the perception that poorer households are affected disproportionally more than richer households. This study compares the simulated distributional effects of tobacco tax increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888983
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Is Africa's Economy at a Turning Point?
Go, Delfin S. - 2008
In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the performance is now registered broadly across several types of countries-particularly the oil-exporting and resource-intensive countries and, in more recent years, the large- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772699
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Agriculture, Aid and Economic Growth in Africa
McArthur, John - 2018
How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically-indexed applied general equilibrium model that considers pathways through which aid might affect growth and structural transformation of labor markets in the context of soil nutrient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918516
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Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in East Asia
Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah - 2017
Using a new database of household surveys, this paper examines inequality among all individuals living in developing East Asia regardless of their country of residence. The East Asian Gini index increased from 39.0 in 1988 to 43.3 in 2012. Inequality increased during the initial decade,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962321