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Inter-jurisdictional migration and the size of government
Giuranno, Michele G.; Rongili, Biswas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper develops a model of centralized public spending where decision-makers are the regional median voters instead of the national median voter of the received literature. Regional representatives decide the level of public spending by bargaining in the central legislature. We study how...
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Redistributive policies in general equilibrium
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2021
We develop a general equilibrium OLG model to evaluate a wide menu of popular redistributive policies in a unified context. We work in two steps: First, we study how initial conditions in human and financial capital, as inherited from family background, shape individuals' human capital, and...
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A politico-economic model of public expenditure and income taxation
Mayoral, Laura; Esteban Marquillas, Joan María - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 10 (2019) 3/4, pp. 479-507
This paper contributes to the literature on majority voting over fiscal policies. We depart from the standard model in two dimensions. First, besides redistributing income, the government uses the net tax revenue to finance the provision of goods and services that become in-kind transfers to the...
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Towards a Social Understanding of Productivity: A Review Article
Madrick, Jeff - In: International Productivity Monitor 6 (2003) Spring, pp. 72-74
Productivity is not just an important concept for economists, but for other social scientists as well. This article by Jeff Matrick, Editor of Challenge and economics columnist for the New York Times, is a review of a the recently published edited volume Towards a Social Understanding of...
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One dollar, one vote
Karabarbounis, Loukas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper revisits the relationship between inequality and redistribution in a panel of advanced OECD countries. Using …-monotonic relationship between pre-tax-and transfer distribution of income and redistribution. Relative to mean income, a more affluent rich … and middle class are associated with less redistribution and a richer poor class is associated with more redistribution …
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Progressive sovereign wealth funds
Corneo, Giacomo - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 5 (2022), pp. 1-10
Equity and efficiency can both be promoted, under some circumstances, by means of a sovereign wealth fund that mainly invests in the world stock market and whose gains are earmarked to a social dividend. A simple overlapping generation model with a fraction of hand-to-mouth agents is developed...
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Welfare Rankings of The Distribution of Earnings in Italy
Liberati, Paolo; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - In: Journal of Income Distribution 21 (2012) 2, pp. 38-76
The aim of this article is to compare the economic well-being associated to the distribution of earnings in Italy. To this purpose, dominance techniques are extensively used to minimize the disagreement about the set of social values introduced into the analysis. We will show that even in a...
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Who has voice in a deliberative democracy? Evidence from transcripts of village parliaments in south India
Ban, Radu; Jha, Saumitra; Rao, Vijayendra - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 428-438
The role of deliberation among citizens to determine and forge agreement on policy is often seen as a crucial feature of democratic government. This paper provides the first large-N empirical evidence on the credibility of voice in a deliberative democracy in an non-laboratory setting, using a...
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A fresh look at an old question : is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?
McKnight, Abigail - 2015
This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty reduction in four EU countries - the UK, Italy, Sweden and France. We use long time series (spanning four decades) to examine trends within countries over time and between...
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The social pay gap across occupations : survey and experimental evidence
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Regner, Tobias - 2016
), incorporates social occupations in the lab society, and allows for (voluntary) redistribution among subjects. The results show that …
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