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Migrants' missing votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...
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Towards equilibrium in income distribution : theoretical background and empirical evidence for European countries
Sell, Friedrich L.; Öllinger, Michael - 2015
equilibrium concept for personal income distribution which is located in status theory and which can explain why a certain or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410029
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Redistribution in a joint income-wealth perspective : a cross-country comparison
Kuypers, Sarah; Figari, Francesco; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2018
Redistribution is usually understood in terms of income; as a way to rank individuals as well as to determine taxable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864870
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Preferences for International Redistribution : The Divide Over the Eurozone Bailouts
Bechtel, Michael M. - 2013
Why do voters agree to bear the costs of bailing out other countries? Despite the prominence of public opinion in the ongoing debate over the eurozone bailouts, voters' preferences on the topic are poorly understood. We conduct the first systematic analysis of this issue using observational and...
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Has immigration contributed to the rise of rightwing extremist parties in Europe?
Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne - 2020
Alongside a range of already well documented factors such as deindustrialization, technological progress and international trade, a series of recent empirical econometric studies show that immigration has contributed to the rise of extreme right-wing parties in Europe. Our study highlights,...
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Financial Deepening and Income Distribution Inequality in the Euro Area
Baiardi, Donatella - 2015
The paper introduces a new specification of the Kuznets curve, where turning point per capita income is conditioned to the level of financial development. Within the proposed framework, it then provides new evidence on real income convergence for the euro area (EA) since the mid-1980s, with a...
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Inequality of Opportunity and Beliefs About Success and Failure
Brock, J. Michelle - 2018
This paper looks at the links between inequality of opportunity and views about the underlying processes that support economic success or failure. Unlike income inequality, inequality of opportunity isolates the extent to which inequality in circumstances beyond an individual's control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928091
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Income taxation and equity : new dominance criteria and an application to Romania
Brunori, Paolo; Palmisano, Flaviana; Peragine, Vitorocco - 2014
, this paper, building upon the opportunity egalitarian theory, proposes new equity criteria which take into account also the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438896
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Preferences for redistribution in Europe
Olivera, Javier - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 14, pp. 1-18
redistribution in 34 European countries over the period 2002-2012. The data is drawn from the six available waves of the European … redistribution over time. Though this result is predicted by standard political economy models, it has found little previous … redistribution. The empirical results hold after performing a variety of robustness checks regarding the construction of pseudo …
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Equilibrium and convergence in income distribution : the case of 28 European countries in the recent, turbulent past (1995–2019)
Guo, Yanling; Sell, Friedrich L. - In: Central European economic journal 8 (2021) 55, pp. 95-125
, they set up a theoretical model which was rooted in status theory. With this concept, one may explain a certain or optimal …
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