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The Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in the Enlarged EU

Fuest, Clemens; Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

different normative focus of the two approaches and show that benefits have other aims than redistribution. Finally, our country …

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Deserving Poor and the Desirability of Minimum Wage Rules

Blumkin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014

In this paper we provide a novel justification for the use of minimum wage rules to supplement the optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage rule can be...

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Income Inequality and the Size of Government: A Causal Analysis

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2018

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...

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The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

Due to behavioral effects triggered by redistributional interventions, it is still an open question whether government policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country-level data sources to study inequality trends in...

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The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2012

intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether …. -- inequality ; redistribution ; social expenditure ; progressive taxation …

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Social spending generosity and income inequality : a dynamic panel approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010 - This version: October 29, 2010

This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...

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Social spending generosity and income inequality: a dynamic panel approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

on pre-government income inequality hints at substantial disincentive effects. -- social benefits ; redistribution …

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Labor migration and the case for flat tax

Blumḳin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; Shem-Tov, Yotam - 2011

to a flat (inferior) regime is not too welfare-costly, even when the extent of re-distribution is significant. Therefore … redistribution. -- flat tax ; re-distribution ; migration ; tax-competition …

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Income Inequality and the Size of Government : A Causal Analysis

Guzi, Martin - 2019

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …

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