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Redistribution as an income mobility process : the identification and measurement of redistribution

Morillas, Juan Rafael - 2009

redistribution. Current measures employed in the sociology and politics of redistribution are seriously flawed. This paper elaborates … redistribution as a micro-level income mobility process, and develops an index to measure it. Using data from the Luxembourg Income … Study, the paper shows that the new measure of redistribution developed in this paper is empirically distinct from the …

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Inequality and redistribution via the public provision of private goods

Katsimē, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2004

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government …

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The political economy of commitment to policies

Delfgaauw, Josse; Swank, Otto H. - 2023

IPCC (2022) documents a looming gap between climate goals and implemented policies and points to a lack of political commitment. We study policymakers' incentives to commit. A policymaker decides on a policy to encourage citizens to make investments and determines the degree of flexibility to...

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The recent reform of the labour market in Italy : a review

Pinelli, Dino; Torre, Roberta; Pace, Lucianajulia; … - 2017

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The end of the consensus? : labour market developments and the politics of retrenchment

Wren, Anne; Rehm, Philipp - In: Socio-economic review 12 (2014) 2, pp. 409-435

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Is social investment inimical to the poor?

Noël, Alain - In: Socio-economic review 18 (2020) 3, pp. 857-880

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Taxation of families and "families of taxation"? : inequality modification between family types across welfare states

Schechtl, Manuel - 2020 - This version: 22.07.2020

Previous sociological research has overlooked the fact that a welfare state’s tax system does not solely redistribute from rich to poor (vertical) but also between family types (horizontal). Different types of families are treated differently due to (de-)familialization policies in the tax...

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The impact of pensions, transfers and taxes on child poverty in Europe : the role of size, pro-poorness and child orientation

Diris, Ron; Vandenbroucke, Frank; Verbist, Gerlinde - In: Socio-economic review 15 (2017) 4, pp. 745-775

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Endogenous distribution, politics, and growth

Das, Satya P.; Ghate, Chetan - 2002

This paper generalizes the analysis of distributive conflict, politics, and growth developed by by Alesina-Rodrik (1994). We construct a heterogenous-agent framework in which both growth and the distribution of wealth are endogenous. Due to adjustments in the distribution of wealth, the...

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Can Germany be saved? : the malaise of the world's first welfare state

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2007

The first shall be last -- How German workers lost their competitive edge -- Trade-union capitalism -- Competing against the welfare state -- The withering East -- Taxes and transfers : the endless loop -- The birth dearth -- EU enlargement, migration, and the new EU constitution -- Rethinking...

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