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inequality. Small market clubs rarely earn substantial amounts of money from the transfer market. The main financial …
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Land reform will not just reduce rural poverty, write development officials. It can raise productivity. It can promote civic engagement. Scholars routinely concur. Land reform may not always raise productivity and civic engagement, but it can - and during 1947-50 in occupied Japan it did. This...
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An ongoing debate has centered on whether redistribution should be attained solely through taxes and transfer payments, or also via the private law. The most powerful argument against redistribution through private law is grounded on economic considerations. Accordingly, legal rules are more...
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This paper estimates an individual level demand model for eggs differentiated by animal welfare. Typically, after minimum quality standards for eggs are raised, the price of higher quality eggs falls. As a result, consumer welfare is redistributed from households who do not value animal welfare...
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income inequality and lower costs of factor mobility. In some countries, larger market income inequality has been met by an …, larger market inequality has been accompanied by a reduction in transfers, thus leading to growth in disposable income … inequality. In our model, the initial level of market income inequality is crucial in explaining how an increase in this variable …
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This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...
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inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary … inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly simplistic and inadequate with respect …
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the link between market inequality and redistribution is even stronger when using perceived inequality measures. We …
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Evidence from a current panel of harmonized worldwide data highlights a robust negative effect of income inequality on … reinforced by limited credit availability. Higher public spending on education attenuates the negative effects of inequality. In … addition to the inequality-growth relationship, we examine the direct influence of effective redistribution. When net …
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