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Policy regimes, inequality, poverty and growth : the Chilean experience, 1973 - 2010
Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo - 2012
Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time … 1990s, resulting from better economic and social policies in the return to democracy. Nonetheless, Chile still faces … significant challenges to improve development. There must be an active macroeconomic policy focused on the real economy. Chile …
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Distributive politics and economic growth
Alesina, Alberto; Rodrik, Dani - 1991
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Distributive politics and economic growth
Alesina, Alberto; Rodrik, Dani - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000813468
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Fundamental determinants of inequality and the role of government
Tanzi, Vito - 1998
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Redistributive politics, power sharing and fairness
Debowizc, Dario; Saporiti, Alejandro; Wang, Yizhi - 2016
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Unfair inequality and the demand for redistribution
Ahrens, Leo - 2019
Income inequality is rising but there seems to be no clear-cut effect on redistribution preferences, which is inconsistent with expectations of individual utility maximization. To explain this puzzle, recent research focuses on other-regarding motives. This study follows prior theorization...
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The distribution of the growth dividends
Hermansen, Mikkel; Ruiz, Nicolas; Causa, Orsetta - 2016
Widespread increases in inequality over the past three decades have raised the question of the distribution of the growth dividends. This paper finds that there is no single answer to this question. The mechanisms that link growth and income inequality are found to differ depending on the...
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Redistributive politics, power sharing and fairness
Debowicz, Dario; Saporiti, Alejandro; Wang, Yizhi - 2016
We study the effect of power sharing over income redistribution among different socio-economic groups in a model of redistributive politics with fairness concern. We prove that a unique pure-strategy equilibrium exists under fairly general conditions; and we show that equilibrium transfers...
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On altruistic and electoral income redistribution : theory and data
Debowicz, Dario; Saporiti, Alejandro; Wang, Yizhi - 2018
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Inequality and redistribution via the public provision of private goods
Katsimē, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2004
The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government collects different amounts of taxes from each citizen (voter) but gives back the same amount (in cash or in kind) to everyone. In this paper we consider what happens if the...
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