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Immigration vs. poverty : causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment
Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; Windsteiger, Lisa - 2020 - This draft: February 19, 2020
of redistributive policies are affected by poverty and immigration. We find that while information about poverty has no … detectable impact on the progressivity of the respondents' demanded income tax schedule, information about immigration has a … response to both poverty and immigration, while low income respondents desire less public expenditure on education due to …
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Immigration vs. Poverty : Causal Impact on Demand for Redistribution in a Survey Experiment
Martinangeli, Andrea FM - 2020
immigration and poverty. We find that information about immigration has a negative impact on demanded redistributive taxation among … provision side, middle income respondents increase desired public expenditure in response to both immigration and poverty, while … low income respondents reduce desired public expenditure in response to immigration. These heterogeneities are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848283
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258037
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You, me and the mean : a semiparametric approach to the redistributive effects of transfer programs
Garcia-Medina, B. Cecilia - 2016
I examine how changes in the receipt of social transfers benefits associated to program reforms have affected the Canadian income distribution over the 1996-2006 period. Using the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, I apply nonparametric decomposition methods to construct density...
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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
design effective post-immigration policies. …
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Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? : evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824272
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The income portfolio of immigrants in Germany : effects of ethnic origin and assimilation or: who gains from income re-distribution?
Frick, Joachim R.; Büchel, Felix - 2000
This paper deals with the economic performance of various population groups in Germany giving special attention to ethnic origin of immigrants as compared to the native born German population. In addition, winners and losers of the re-distribution process, induced by the tax and social security...
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Immigration vs. poverty : causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment
Martinangeli, Andrea F. M.; Windsteiger, Lisa - In: European journal of political economy 78 (2023), pp. 1-46
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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance
Hölsch, Katja (contributor); Kraus, Margit (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
In this paper, the relationship between the degree of centralisation and the distributive outcomes in European schemes of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes according to features related to centralisation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002422190
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Local Distributional Effects of Government Cash Transfers in Chile
Agostini, Claudio A.; Brown, Phil - 2007
Despite rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Chile has remained high and remarkably constant over the last 20 years, prompting academic and public interest in the subject. Due to data limitations, however, research on inequality in Chile has concentrated on the national and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223890