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redistributions. Nonetheless, the social-mobility argument for redistribution is not satisfactory, as actual transition probabilities …
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The distributional impact of proposed reforms plays a central role in public debates around tax and transfer policy. We show that accounting for realistic patterns of mobility in employment, earnings and household circumstances over the life-cycle greatly affects our assessment of the...
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This paper examines the distributional impact of increases to out-of-work transfers, increases to work-contingent transfers, and increases in higher rates of income tax over the whole of life. We find that, in contrast to what is implied by standard snapshot analyses, increases to...
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This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities in income and educational mobility in both countries....
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We test for different theories purporting to explain cross-country differences in income redistribution through … standardized experimental choices. US Americans and Italians demand less redistribution than Norwegians and Germans, regardless of … overconfidence by US Americans and Italians further reduces their demand for redistribution under uncertainty. The "Prospect of …
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