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and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential usefulness of apparently inefficient policy … instruments in overcoming the self-selection constraints on redistribution and limiting the damage that ill …, while there are circumstances in which redistribution may plausibly generate efficiency gains, the likelihood that some …
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found to impact individual attitudes towards equality and redistribution and demonstrate that self-interest evaluations …
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We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in...
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The paper looks at the change, the level and the structure of income distribution and distribution of consumption possibilities at the individual and at the household level between the years 1979 and 2000. I also pay attention to the development of low incomes when the concept of income is...
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during the 1994-2004 and 2004-2010 periods. During the first period, characterized by increasing income inequality, the …
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The aim of this paper is calculating the impact of taxes on inequality of lifetime income distribution in Argentina …
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The aim of this paper is calculating the impact of taxes on inequality of lifetime income distribution in Argentina …
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High levels of economic inequality may lead to lower economic growth and can have negative social and political impacts … significantly more than previously suggested. Currently, the average Gini index (a common measure) of inequality in Eastern Europe … is about 3 percentage points higher than in the rest of Europe. This rise in inequality was initially driven by …
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We study the determinants of people’s attitudes toward income inequality and their economic consequences. We argue that … attitudes toward inequality depend on the extent of freedom of choice and control over life outcomes an individual enjoys. We …
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Este estudio continúa la línea de investigación acerca de los determinantes de las actividades de Investigación y Desarrollo y su impacto sobre la innovación tecnológica y la productividad de las plantas manufactureras en Chile (Benavente y Crespi, 1996y Benavente 2002). Los resultados...
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