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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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-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006909
Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also creates non-pecuniary, psychological costs. We quantify these non-pecuniary losses by using the life satisfaction approach. In contrast to previous studies, we apply Friedman's...
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This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...
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We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting, however small the …
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We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting, however small the …
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additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its …
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This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD … countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved … overall redistribution, the respective role of various categories of transfers for transfer redistribution; as well as …
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phenomenon across the globe. Upward-biased perceptions are associated with lower preferences for redistribution and have direct … redistribution preferences, is independent of socio-demographic characteristics, robust to measurement errors in social surveys, and …
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The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model … that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher … inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. Using the new data on Non …
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