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Knowledge is Power: A Theory of Information, Income, and Welfare Spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rhoner, Dominic - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2011

No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties to choose political...

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Resistance, redistribution and investor-friendliness

Bhattacharya, Sourav; Kundu, Tapas - In: Journal of Development Economics 109 (2014) C, pp. 124-142

willingness and ability to redistribute. We interpret such acts of resistance as demands for redistribution: Destruction contains … implementing the optimal redistribution policy. The extent of destruction is increasing in the extent of political marginalization …

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Cohesion, Insurance and Redistribution

Echenique, Federico; Eguia, Jon X. - In: Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2 (2008) 4, pp. 287-305

sectors. We showthat redistribution to a sector whose agents have highly correlated incomes generates an insurance value …

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Are more equal societies happier? Subjective well-being, income inequality, and redistribution

Hajdu, Tamas; Hajdu, Gabor - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2013

Using four waves of the European Social Survey, we analyze the association of income inequality and redistribution with … the process, the extent of redistribution, what lead to that state. These impacts are different in Eastern and Western … Europe. Inequality aversion and the positive effect of redistribution seem to be stronger also for less affluent members of …

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Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

Kuhn, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals’ political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …

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Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2013

margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …

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Scénarios de réforme de la CSG

Concialdi, Pierre; Monnier, Jean-Marie - HAL - 2002

La montée en puissance de la CSG et de la fiscalisation du financement de la protection sociale suscite de nombreux débat, en particulier sur le profil redistributif de la contribution. Partant d'une réflexion sur la nature des facultés contributives, l'article établit dans un premier temps...

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The three worlds of welfare capitalism revisited

Brockhoff, Sarah; Rossignol, Stéphane; Taugourdeau, … - HAL - 2012

We introduce a new way to model the Bismarckian social insuance system, stressing its corporatist dimension. Comparing the Beveridgean, Bismarckian and Liberal systems according to the majority voting rule, we show that for a given distribution of risks inside society, the Liberal system wins if...

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L'équivalence fiscale des revenus et la réforme de l'impôt sur le revenu

Monnier, Jean-Marie - HAL - 2000

Les débats sur le quotient familial qui constitue le dispositif central dans le calcul de l'IRPP en France, sont principalement centrés sur son impact redistributif. Deux conceptions de l'équité se sont ainsi affrontées. L'une tient compte des configurations familiales ex ante pour corriger...

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How does party fractionalization convey preferences for redistribution in parliamentary democracies?

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella; Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2008

In this paper, we highlight the link between the political demand and social policy outcome while taking into account the design of the party system. The political demand is measured by individual preferences and the design of the party system is defined as the extent of party fractionalization....

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