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Unintended consequences : can the rise of the educated class explain the revival of protectionism?

Giordani, Paolo; Mariani, Fabio - 2020

extent of redistribution. In this setting, trade liberalization is politically viable as long as the losers from trade are … may be limited political support for redistribution, and those who are left behind by globalization - namely unskilled … - by favoring the ascent of the educated class and thus eroding the political support for redistribution - may ultimately …

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Redistributive politics with target-specific beliefs

Fong, Christina M.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019

the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target …

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Chapter 25. Inequality, Technology and the Social Contract

Bénabou, Roland - 2005

The distribution of human capital and income lies at the center of a nexus of forces that shape a country’s economic, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyze these interactions and their growth consequences. Five main issues are addressed. First, I...

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Unfair inequality and the demand for redistribution : why not all inequality is equal

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Racial change and income tax policy in the US states

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The Brahmin left, the merchant right and the bloc bourgeois

Amable, Bruno; Darcillon, Thibault - In: Review of international political economy 29 (2022) 4, pp. 1342-1367

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Why do redistributive policies differ across countries? : analyzing the multiple dimensions of preferences for redistribution

Kambayashi, Ryo; Lechevalier, Sébastien - In: Review of income and wealth 68 (2022) 4, pp. 1032-1057

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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy

Vindigni, Andrea - 2024

A model of endogenous growth is presented, based on productive public expenditures, and featuring some degree of income inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital taxation that relies, both on voting and on "influence...

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Alberto Alesina (1957-2020) : man, researcher, Professor of Economics, popularizer

Vindigni, Andrea - 2023

This paper offers an overview of Alberto Alesina's life and of his scholarly work (§ 1 and 2). It will be argued, that Alberto would have entirely deserved the award of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science, except only for his premature passing away. His foundational contribution was the...

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Labor market risks and welfare preferences : a bounded rationality approach

Ahrens, Leo - In: Socio-economic review 22 (2024) 1, pp. 327-348

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