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Testing preferences for basic income
Kuss, Ana Helena Palermo - 2019
Inspired by Fröhlich and Oppenheimer (1990), an experimental survey in the lab was designed to find out if preferences for three different redistribution schemes differ under a veil of ignorance. The three schemes are a stylized version of the status quo German welfare state (A), a control...
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Informal interference in the judiciary in new democracies : a comparison of six African and Latin American cases
Llanos, Mariana; Tibi Weber, Cordula; Heyl, Charlotte; … - 2014
This paper assesses the extent to which elected power holders informally intervene in the judiciaries of new democracies, an acknowledged but under-researched topic in studies of judicial politics. The paper first develops an empirical strategy for the study of informal interference based on...
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Political regimes and economic growth in Latin America
Albornoz, Facundo; Dutta, Jayasri - 2007
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Participación ciudadana y democracia : una revisión de las mejores experiencias Iberoamericanas
Monedero, Juan Carlos; Jerez Novara, Ariel Ernesto; … - 2013
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Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America
Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022
that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid, thus weakening democracy promotion. This study aims to deepen our … Survey, we use an instrumental variable approach to test the effect of Chinese aid on attitudes toward democracy in 18 Latin … democracy. We also find that individuals who have a positive attitude towards China are more likely to value democracy. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260052
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Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America
Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022
that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid, thus weakening democracy promotion. This study aims to deepen our … Survey, we use an instrumental variable approach to test the effect of Chinese aid on attitudes toward democracy in 18 Latin … democracy. We also find that individuals who have a positive attitude towards China are more likely to value democracy. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266063
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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
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Five crossroads on the way to basic income : an Italian tour
Colombino, Ugo - 2014
The current Italian income support policies are defective with respect to both efficiency and equity. A more effective design must face five crucial choices: universal vs. categorical policies; transfers vs. subsidies; unconditional vs. means-tested policies; coverage; flat vs. progressive tax...
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Paid basic income, fertility rates and economic growth
Brezis, Elise S. - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of paid basic income on fertility rates in a model in which fertility rates are endogenous. I show that when child labor is not a crucial part of the income of the family, then paid basic income will lead to higher fertility rates. However,...
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The political sustainability of a basic income scheme and social health insurance
Kifmann, Mathias; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
This paper studies how society votes on the payroll taxes of a basic income and a social health insurance scheme. Individuals differ along the two most important dimensions when it comes to the design of the two welfare schemes, namely, income and risk. Even though the introduction of a basic...
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