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The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … model where redistributive conflict takes place both between educational groups and age-groups. The effects of inequality … and mobility are not unambiguous but depend on factors such as how mobility changes in different groups and causes of …
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The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … model where redistributive conflict takes place both between educational groups and age-groups. The effects of inequality … and mobility are not unambiguous but depend on factors such as how mobility changes in different groups and causes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645459
The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We show that inequality may have no discernible effect on the size of redistributive programs. …
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Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on survey data that needs not assume that voters are guided by pecuniary motives alone. We find that most democracies implement the median voter's preferred amount of redistribution...
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The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … model where redistributive conflict takes place both between educational groups and age-groups. The effects of inequality … and mobility are not unambiguous but depend on factors such as how mobility changes in different groups and causes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003202910
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The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … model where redistributive conflict takes place both between educational groups and age-groups. The effects of inequality … and mobility are not unambiguous but depend on factors such as how mobility changes in different groups and causes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784101
Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on survey data that needs not assume that voters are guided by pecuniary motives alone. We find that most democracies implement the median voter's preferred amount of redistribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307797
The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution in a country is still ongoing. We … initial inequality, there should be more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. We test these … redistribution and, to some extent, that there is more redistribution with rising inequality. Hence, on the basis of a direct measure …
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