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Inequality, public wealth, and the federal shareholder
Corneo, Giacomo - 2016
evolution by enhancing the role of public capital as a redistribution and empowerment device. The governance of public capital …
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Inequality, Public Wealth, and the Federal Shareholder
Corneo, Giacomo - 2016
evolution by enhancing the role of public capital as a redistribution and empowerment device. The governance of public capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992603
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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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Inequality, public wealth, and the federal shareholder
Corneo, Giacomo - 2016
. I propose to counter this evolution by enhancing the role of public capital as a redistribution and empowerment device …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555955
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Human capital mobility : implications for efficiency, income distribution, and policy
Wildasin, David E. - 2014
Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...
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Equality under threat by the talented : evidence from worker-managed firms
Burdín, Gabriel - 2013
Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper revisits that long-standing debate by analyzing the interplay between compensation structure and quit...
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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Political institutions and income (re-)distribution : evidence from developed economies
Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2013
. Fiscal competition is associated with less income redistribution and a less equal distribution of disposable incomes, but …
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Deserving poor and the desirability of minimum wage rules
Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014
In this paper we provide a novel justification for the use of minimum wage rules to supplement the optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage rule can be...
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An empirical analysis of trade-related redistribution and the political viability of free trade
Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2014
undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of … free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the causal effect of expected redistribution associated with the US Trade …. We find that a one standard deviation increase in redistribution leads to more than a 3% point increase in the …
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