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Low inequality with low redistribution?An analysis of income distribution in Japan, SouthKorea and Taiwan compared to Britain
Jacobs, Didier - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
, Taiwan and the UnitedKingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures bypopulation groups and income sources … (except for Japan because of datalimitations). According to national family income and expendituresurveys, income inequality … influencing income inequality are very different between thethree Asian countries on the one hand, and Britain on the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008733221
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - Århus Universitet; Universität <Göttingen> / …; … - 2009
less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249011
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Automatic Stabilizers, Economic Crisis andIncome Distribution in Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protecthouseholds at different income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360592
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Mikro-Chips für Massenmärkte - Innovationsstrategien der europäischen und amerikanischen Halbleiterhersteller in den 90er Jahren
Buss, Klaus-Peter; Wittke, Volker - 2000
Der Beitrag stellt Ergebnisse des SOFI-Projektes "Organisation von Innovationsprozessen in der Halbleiterindustrie" vor, das im Rahmen des"Verbundes Sozialwissenschaftliche Technikforschung" vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung gefördert wurde. Das Projekt hat die Veränderung von...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005847186
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Excess burden of criminality and redistribution
Demougin, Dominique; Schwager, Robert - 2000
of wealthy agents to finance redistribution. We compare this approach with standard modelling where redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005841060
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Heterogeneity, Redistribution, and the FriedmanRule
Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Haslag, Joseph H.; Martin, Antoine - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
We study several popular monetary models which generate a non-degenerate stationary distribution of money holdings. Across these environments, our principal finding is as follows: a monetary policy that sets long run nominal interest rates to zero (the Friedman rule) does not typically maximize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360925
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Social Security, Redistribution and Public Opinion
Hills, John; Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
John Hills and Orsolya Lelkes have analysed results from the National Centrefor Social Research’s 1998 British Social Attitudes survey on public attitudes toredistribution and social security benefits and at how these relate to currentgovernment policies.There is a persistent public appetite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008766039
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Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation:Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio - Boston College / Department of Economics - 2010
We prove that in a closed economy without distortionary taxation, the welfare of a representativeconsumer is summarized to a …rst order by the current and expected future values of the Solowproductivity residual in level and by the initial endowment of capital. The equivalence holds if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302538
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Recent Changes in the Distribution of the Social Wage
Sefton, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
period,though they have not prevented inequality from rising.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354066
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Tax-Benefi t Systems in Europe and the US:Between Equity and Effi ciency
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk.; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
international comparison in degrees ofrevealed inequality aversion, but differences in social preferences are significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360552