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This article analyzes the determinants of market income distribution and governmental redistribution. The dependent … variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the … inequality has increased in the United States because the country failed to invest sufficiently in education. The main …
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We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …
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-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality. Using a political-economy model where parties bargain over taxes and …
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), incorporates social occupations in the lab society, and allows for (voluntary) redistribution among subjects. The results show that …, regardless of (non-)random assignment to social jobs and the level of income inequality, individuals in social jobs are only …
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La Ferrara (2005a), and have not been covered by a survey before. -- redistribution ; social security ; welfare state …
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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …
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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909517
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …
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This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s, which dramatically limited cash assistance for low-income families, on the next generation as they transition to adulthood. We estimate effects by gender and focus on behaviors that are important for socioeconomic...
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policy ; inequality ; redistribution ; political economy ; Great Recession …We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to …
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