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The Impact of Tax and Expenditure Policies on Income Distribution : Evidence from a Large Panel of Countries
Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2012
The main focus of this paper is on the potential role that taxation and public expenditure policies play in general in affecting income distribution. We find that progressive personal income taxes and corporate income taxes reduce income inequality. The effect of corporate income taxes seems to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096592
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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2020
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289471
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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2018
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In … role in welfare states with aging societies. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911179
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Your place in the world relative income and global inequality
Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507321
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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World
Bartels, Charlotte - 2018
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In … role in welfare states with aging societies. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908404
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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States Around the World
Bartels, Charlotte - 2020
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823316
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Welfare Reform in a Global Economy
Schwinn, Steven D. - 2008
The federal government's welfare reform efforts have two defining characteristics: first, welfare reform requires welfare recipients to work for their checks (and to move toward permanent, self-sustainable employment); and second welfare reform devolves administrative responsibility to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772185
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Redistributive policies for sustainable development : looking at the role of assets and equity
Kohler, Pierre - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466285
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Whose preferences matter for redistribution : cross-country evidence
Maréchal, Michel André; Cohn, Alain; Yusof, Jeffrey; … - 2023
redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444875
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Whose Preferences Matter for Redistribution : Cross-country Evidence
Maréchal, Michel André; Cohn, Alain; Yusof, Jeffrey; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447295