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Distributional and welfare effects of replacing monetary benefits with iniversal basic income in Spain
Badenes Plá, Nuria; Gambau-Suelves, Borja; Navas … - 2019
This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the monetary benefits currently in place in the Spanish system were to be replaced by a neutral alternative in terms of spending, granting a universal basic income (UBI) to everyone. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008734
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Punching up or punching down? : how stereotyping the rich and the poor impacts redistributive preferences in Germany
Diermeier, Matthias; Fischer, Madeleine L.; Niehues, Judith - 2023
Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific … rich, support for redistribution in Germany is not motivated by the urge to castigate this group for their affluence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234221
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Redistributive impacts of civil war : the case of Côte d'Ivoire
Hlásny, Vladimír - 2023
Many of the world's LDCs are plagued by recurring conflict. Conflict impedes sustainable development through various channels, creating conditions conducive to further conflict. Conflict has redistributive impacts, particularly when it erupts in resource-rich countries. Between 2002 and 2011,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455370
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Inequality and poverty in the United States : public policies for inclusive growth
Denk, Oliver; Hagemann, Robert P.; Lenain, Patrick; … - 2013
addition, taxes and transfers contribute less to income redistribution than in other OECD countries. If well designed, reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767746
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The tragedy (or virtue?) of in-kind redistribution : how the poor pays for the rich's status concerns
Schumacher, Jan - 2008
net cash incomes. When deciding on the size and on the structure of redistribution, the rich person decides that at least … part of the redistribution is done in-kind, even if a private substitute for the publicly provided good is available. The … when the richer cares for her status compared to a situation in which she does not. -- redistribution ; in-kind transfers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746177
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Growth and income redistribution components of changes in poverty : a decomposition analysis for Ireland, 1987 - 2005
Are, Wasiu Adekunle - 2012
This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … changes into growth and redistribution components revealed that the growth component dominates the redistribution component in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733719
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Income redistribution going awry : the reversal power of the concern for relative deprivation
Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded - 2012
We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively not only on work time (effort) but also on low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680434
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Income redistribution going awry : the reversal power of the concern for relative deprivation
Stark, Oded; Sorger, Gerhard - 2012
We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively not only on work time (effort) but also on low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681018
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The Village of Billionaires : Fair Taxation and Redistribution Amid Relative and Absolute Poverty
Brassey, Alexis - 2020
Tax justice and principles underpinning the international tax regime are in vogue. The idea that companies and individuals need to pay their "fair share", not just in the domestic sense but also the international sense, is now a mainstream position. This paper explores the problems relating to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828633
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A class of proximity-sensitive measures of relative deprivation
Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2017
We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order p . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive parameter p , the class is capable of accommodating both a decreasing weight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723898