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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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Redistributive politics, power sharing and fairness

Debowizc, Dario; Saporiti, Alejandro; Wang, Yizhi - 2016

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The libertarian that demands redistribution: an online experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China

Chen, Nora Yuqian; Huang, Yuchen; Mo, Zhexun - 2021

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Alternative government spending rules : effects on income inequality and welfare

Lim, Guay C.; McNelis, Paul D. - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 17 (2013) 7, pp. 1496-1518

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Fiscal incidence in Moldova : a commitment to equity analysis

Cojocaru, Alexandru; Matycin, Michail Ja.; Prohnitchi, … - 2019

This paper uses methods developed by the Commitment to Equity Institute and data from the Household Budget Survey to assess the effects of government taxation and social spending on poverty and inequality in Moldova. The paper presents the first detailed distributional analysis of the tax and...

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Remittances and income inequality in Africa : financial development thresholds for economic policy

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel; Dossou, Toyo … - 2022

The study employs macro data on 42 African countries to examine whether remittances and financial development (including its sub-components of access, depth and efficiency) contribute to the equalisation of incomes across the continent. Robust evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that:...

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Income Inequality in Chile: 1990-2006

Hourton, Alain - Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University - 2012

The entrance of Chile to the Organization for the Economic Cooperation and Development, as the first South American … regime in the 1980s, Chile is one of the most market-oriented countries in Latin America, with Free Trade Agreements and … Economical Partnerships with several countries, including Japan, the United States and China. Nonetheless, Chile’s economic …

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Common Trends and Shocks to Top Incomes: A Structural Breaks Approach

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2009

In this paper we use newly compiled top income share data to estimate common breaks and trends across countries over the twentieth century. By using the most re-cent structural breaks techniques, our approach both confirms previous notions and offers new insights. In particular, the division...

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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers: Industry versus country analysis

Schneider, Dorothee - 2010

In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high-, medium-, and low-skilled workers. Com- pared to other studies, I investigate this question using a considerably richer data set with respect to the length of time series, set of...

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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes

van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2003

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...

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