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, they set up a theoretical model which was rooted in status theory. With this concept, one may explain a certain or optimal …
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The authors analyze to what extent and how the tax burden should be shifted towards top income earners in order to reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship...
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association of reduction of income inequality by governmental taxes and transfers (redistribution) with subjective well … its reduction, their results might indicate that not only the outcome (inequality), but also the procedure (redistribution … redistribution is stronger for less affluent members of the society and left-wing oriented individuals. While post …
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The amount of redistribution people favor depends on socioeconomic factors and their views on fairness. This study … less redistribution, women are more in favor of redistribution than men on average, and older people favor it more than … more redistribution than people who are more prone to taking risks. The results help us understand which policies are …
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In this paper, we use tax and household survey data to assess the history of income distribution in Argentina since the beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite of lower income growth. Since then, inequality has generally increased...
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redistribution in 34 European countries over the period 2002-2012. The data is drawn from the six available waves of the European … redistribution over time. Though this result is predicted by standard political economy models, it has found little previous … redistribution. The empirical results hold after performing a variety of robustness checks regarding the construction of pseudo …
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World leaders have come to recognise the challenge posed by high and rising economic inequality. This paper asks how Europe can address excessive inequality. It argues that we should learn from the lessons of history; there have been significant periods in the past when inequality fell. We can...
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A real-effort experiment is conducted in order to detect preferences for one out of three different models of the Welfare State characterized by different tax-and-transfer schemes. We reproduce a small society in the lab where: Subjects are grouped in three stylized classes (the rich, the middle...
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This study analyses the lack of robust conclusions about the association between inequality and economic growth. On the basis of ex-ante concept of inequality of opportunity, the parametric measure of unequal opportunity is used by partitioning the total sample in to 16 mutually exclusive...
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