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Essays on heterogeneous agents : political economy and labor markets
Bredemeier, Christian - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855948
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Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality : Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries
Kuhn, Andreas - 2012
inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103481
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Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality : Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries
Kuhn, Andreas - 2012
inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103911
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Immigration vs. poverty : causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment
Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; Windsteiger, Lisa - 2020 - This draft: February 19, 2020
redistribution and addressing its pitfalls requires in-depth investigations by population segment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422563
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789164
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorner, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794029
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436192
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406589
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Perception of Inequality and Social Mobility
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2014
This paper explores the perceptions of inequality and their associations with social mobility exploiting the ISSP and LiTS cross-country data sets. These perceptions vary across countries as well as across individuals within countries. We try to explain this variation by examining the diverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040179
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Skewness, Tax Progression, and Demand for Redistribution : Evidence from the UK
Pogorelskiy, Kirill - 2018
We introduce a skewness-based approach to measure tax progression and demand for redistribution. We provide a political … redistribution (Meltzer and Richard, 1981) and the Prospect Of Upward Mobility (POUM) mechanism (Benabou and Ok, 2001), as well as … enough that the observed redistribution (or lack thereof) could be consistent with the POUM hypothesis, more recent periods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934159