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addition to the inequality-growth relationship, we examine the direct influence of effective redistribution. When net … inequality is held constant, public redistribution negatively affects economic growth. Redistribution hampers investment and … net inequality, the overall impact of redistribution is insignificant. Whereas this result stems mainly from advanced …
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correlated with faster and more durable growth, for a given level of redistribution. 3. Redistribution appears generally benign … on growth. Thus the combined direct and indirect effects of redistribution – including the growth effects of the … between redistribution and growth. The best available macroeconomic data do not support that conclusion …
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A model of endogenous growth is presented, based on productive public expenditures, and featuring some degree of income inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital taxation that relies, both on voting and on "influence...
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An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …
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. Redistribution policies via taxes and transfers are a key tool to ensure the benefits of growth are more broadly distributed and the …
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There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of...
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Supporters of left-wing parties typically place more emphasis on redistributive policies than right-wing voters. I investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I...
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lead individuals to support income redistribution, while also obtaining an assessment regarding to what degree …
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which this ratio increases coincide with those in which Democrats rule the government and there is more redistribution from … the power are characterized by a fall in the ratio and less redistribution from the rich to the rest of the population …
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-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …
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