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Specialized theoretical and empirical research should in principle be embedded in a unified framework that identifies the relevant interactions among different phenomena, enables an appropriate matching of policy instruments to objectives, and grounds normative analysis in individuals' utilities...
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comparison of two treatments with and without the ex post redistribution stage in which both players may voluntarily transfer … efficiency and equity of the final outcome. Furthermore, these tendencies are stronger when the two players have conflicting …
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blocks of lifetime disparities. We look at lifetime inequality and the redistribution properties of taxes and benefits using … the lowest earnings capacity, the tax and benefits system does achieve life-cycle redistribution. Other policies like …
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Uncertainty and its composition can affect the demand for social insurance, and thereby the labor market. This paper shows that small to medium-sized increases in uncertainty or risk aversion are enough to recommend an expansion of the safety net that would be broadly similar to the actual...
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a decline in cash transfer redistribution while personal income taxes played a less important and more heterogeneous …This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD … countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved …
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that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If …
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for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …
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Ethnic discrimination is ubiquitous, and it has been shown to exert adverse effects on income redistribution. The … work effort knowing that their income will finance redistribution to ethnic minorities. We test for this mechanism … statistically insignificantly. Workers' beliefs over the third party's redistribution rate do not mediate such results and are …
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Why do individuals' preferences for redistribution often diverge widely from their material self-interest? Using an … political economy of redistribution and the potential for information interventions to shift support for fiscal adjustment …
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