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Tax competition and the move from insurance to assistance.

Zemmour, Michaël - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2012

systems may coexist : insurance and assistance. Insurance level is set by consensus between firms and unions, whereas … assistance expenditures are set by a majority vote in parliament. Social insurance can be manipulated to influence preferences in … emergence of a mixed model : assistance increases to complement existing insurance, not to replace it. A time series cross …

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Tax competition and the move from insurance to assistance

Zemmour, Michaël - HAL - 2012

systems may coexist: insurance and assistance. Insurance level is set by consensus between firms and unions, whereas … assistance expenditures are set by a majority vote in parliament. Social insurance can be manipulated to influence preferences in … emergence of a mixed model: assistance increases to complement existing insurance, not to replace it. A time series cross …

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As the People Want It, Blueprint for a New Confederation

Knutsen, John F - EconWPA - 2004

Presents a complete and detailed constitutional framework applying the rational self-interest model and market mechanisms to intra and inter- governmental behaviour and collective decisions. In particular, the paper presents an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of...

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Voting for Jobs: Policy Persistence and Unemployment

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper studies, in a model with unemployment, how labour market status affects the preferences for public spending, in the form of a public good or subsidies. It then derives the implications for the dynamics of government expenditures under the hypothesis of majority voting. These will...

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Fairness and Redistribution, a comment

Tella, Rafael Di; Dubra, Juan - Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, … - 2013

We provide an example that shows that in the Alesina and Angeletos (2005) model one can obtain multiplicity even if luck plays no role in the economy. Thus, it is not critical that the noise to signal ratio be increasing in taxes, or that desired taxes are increasing in the noise to signal ratio.

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The political economy of rural property rights and the persistence of the dual economy

Fergusson, Leopoldo - In: Journal of Development Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 167-181

Rural areas often have more than one regime of property rights and production. Large, private-property farms owned by powerful landowners coexist with subsistence peasants who farm small plots with limited property rights. At the same time, there is broad consensus that individual,...

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Freedom and Redistribution

Bavetta, Sebastiano; Navarra, Pietro - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2012) 3, pp. 29-49

We study the determinants of people’s attitudes toward income inequality and their economic consequences. We argue that attitudes toward inequality depend on the extent of freedom of choice and control over life outcomes an individual enjoys. We construct a two-stage empirical model where...

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A note on Fairness and Redistribution

Di Tella, Rafael; Dubra, Juan - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2010

We note some problems in Alesina and Angeletos (2005) and suggest a way to maintain the key insight of that paper, which is that a demand for fairness could lead to different economic systems such as those observed in France versus the US (multiple equilibria).

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Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We construct a model of simultaneous change and persistence in institutions. The model consists of landowning elites and workers, and the key economic decision concerns the form of economic institutions regulating the transaction of labour (e.g., competitive markets versus labour repression)....

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The Political Economy of Rural Property Rights and the Persistence of the Dual Economy

Fergusson, Leopoldo - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2012

If property rights in land are so beneficial, why are they not adopted more widely? I propose a theory based on the idea that limited property rights over peasants' plots may be supported by elite landowners (who depend on peasants for labour) to achieve two goals. First, like other distortions...

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