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We show how experience and dynamic learning processes reduce the obstacles to optimization imposed by information frictions when individuals newly enter the formal sector economy. Most importantly, we provide causal evidence on the exact mechanisms through which individuals learn about the...
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We show how experience and dynamic learning processes reduce the obstacles to optimization imposed by information frictions when individuals newly enter the formal sector economy. Most importantly, we provide causal evidence on the exact mechanisms through which individuals learn about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865317
the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019139
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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This paper considers redistributive as well as political consequences of tax avoidance. When investing in tax avoidance is possible, the official tax rate does not necessarily correspond to what individuals actually pay in taxes. This affects both redistributive outcomes as well as individual's...
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There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of...
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democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …
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I show that a stylized fact on the decades-long stability in preferences for income redistribution – which has … substantial support for taxation and redistribution among conservatives. This treatment closes upwards of half the gap in …
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Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Support for redistribution may also be affected by altruistic and egalitarian preferences, but knowledge about the … redistribution in a broad sample of the Swiss population. Based on a recently developed non-parametric clustering procedure, we …
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the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theory about support for redistribution in the presence of target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889829