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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2021
The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the effects of revenue neutral flat rate tax reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of...
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Is a Flat Tax Politically Feasible in a Grown-Up Welfare State?
Fuest, Clemens - 2007
The introduction of a flat tax is supposed to have several advantages. Administration and compliance costs are reduced, as well as incentives for tax evasion. Furthermore, positive employment and growth effects are expected. Despite these advantages, a flat rate tax is not very popular in most...
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Distributional and welfare effects of replacing monetary benefits with iniversal basic income in Spain
Badenes Plá, Nuria; Gambau-Suelves, Borja; Navas … - 2019
This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the monetary benefits currently in place in the Spanish system were to be replaced by a neutral alternative in terms of spending, granting a universal basic income (UBI) to everyone. We...
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Preferences for Redistribution among Emigrantsfrom a Welfare State
Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2012
This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of originamong those who stay in a welfare … increasing incomeredistribution, while majority of women supports it. Women are somewhat more positivetowards redistribution also … redistribution are driven bybeliefs about the determinants of individual success, generalized trust, assimilation tothe new home …
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Immigrant voters, taxation and the size of the welfare state
Chevalier, Arnaud; Elsner, Benjamin; Lichter, Andreas; … - 2018
effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially … higher demand for redistribution more than 50 years later. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895493
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Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2018
effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially … higher demand for redistribution more than 50 years later …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912247
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Social Norms and Economic Incentives in the Welfare State
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 1997
This paper analyzes the interplay between social norms and economic incentives in the context of work decisions in the modern welfare state. We assume that to live off one's own work is a social norm, and that the larger the population fraction adhering to this norm, the more intensely it is...
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Social Norms, the Welfare State, and Voting
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörgen - 1996
This paper analyzes the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in a public finance context. We assume that to live off one's own work is a social norm, and that the larger the population fraction adhering to this norm, the more intensely it is felt by the individual. It is shown...
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Post-Communist Welfare Capitalisms : Bringing Institutions and Political Agency Back in
Cerami, Alfio - 2011
This article explores the post-communist worlds of welfare capitalism in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, including the successor states of the former Soviet Union. It discusses recent developments, whilst offering some additional theoretical reflections on the key factors that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117147
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Immigration and the Welfare State
Griswold, Daniel T. - 2013
Among the more serious arguments against liberalizing immigration is that it can be costly to taxpayers. Low-skilled immigrants in particular consume more government services than they pay in taxes, increasing the burden of government for native-born Americans. Organizations such as the Center...
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