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Immigration vs. Poverty : Causal Impact on Demand for Redistribution in a Survey Experiment

Martinangeli, Andrea FM - 2020

immigration and poverty. We ﬁnd that information about immigration has a negative impact on demanded redistributive taxation among … provision side, middle income respondents increase desired public expenditure in response to both immigration and poverty, while … low income respondents reduce desired public expenditure in response to immigration. These heterogeneities are …

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Neighborhoods, Perceived Immigration, and Preferences for Redistribution : Evidence from Barcelona

Domènech-Arumí, Gerard - 2023

I use registry data and an original survey recording exact addresses to study the effects of neighborhood immigration … with lower perceived immigration and more redistribution demand. The opposite is true for Asian or African migrants. Quasi … sizeable inflows increase the support for anti-immigration parties. Differences in income, language, and skin tone between …

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Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany – Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects

Büchel, Felix; Frick, Joachim R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of each country as the reference category, we find that, as a...

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Altruistic and selfish motivations of charitable giving : case of the hometown tax donation system in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji; Tsutsui, Yoshirō; Ōtake, Fumio - 2017

In Japan's hometown tax donation system, people can donate to municipalities where they are not resident and in return receive reciprocal gifts from the local governments of those municipalities. A large part of the donated amount can be deducted from their income and residence taxes. This study...

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Why Is So Much Redistribution In-Kind and Not in Cash? Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Liscow, Zachary D. - 2020

Basic economic theory prescribes that redistribution typically take the form of cash rather than in-kind goods and services, since cash lets the recipient choose how to use the resources, thereby maximizing benefits to the recipient. Notwithstanding this benefit, among the trillions of dollars...

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Samaritan's Dilemmas, Wealth Redistribution, and Polycentricity

Tuszynski, Meg - 2016

It is nearly universally presumed that redistribution can be carried out effectively only at the national or even global level, because local redistribution will be negated through personal mobility: recipients will move to high-paying jurisdictions while taxpayers will move away from those...

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Punching up or punching down? : how stereotyping the rich and the poor impacts redistributive preferences in Germany

Diermeier, Matthias; Fischer, Madeleine L.; Niehues, Judith - 2023

Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as 'deserving' or 'undeserving'. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and...

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Motives for Private Transfers over the Life Cycle: An Analytical Framework and Evidence for Peru

Cox, Donald; Eser, Zekeriya; Jimenez, Emmanuel - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1996

This paper tests for the motives for private income transfers. We consider two motives: altruism and exchange. The question of private-transfer motives is important because such motivation can influence the effects of public income transfers on the distribution of income. Using a household...

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Private Inter-household Transfers in Vietnam in the Early and Late 1990s

Cox, Donald - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2002

This chapter uses data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys (VLSS) to describe patterns of money transfers between households. Rapid economic growth during the 1990's did little to diminish the importance of private transfers in Vietnam. Private transfers are large and...

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Private Safety Nets through Inter-Household Transfers: The Case of Viet Nam

Cox, Donald; Fetzer, James; Jiminez, Emmanuel - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1996

This paper uses the Viet Nam Living Standards Survey (VNLSS) to provide a snapshot of private transfer activity. We investigate private transfer patterns along a variety of dimensions, such as age, household resources, demographic make-up of the household and characteristics of the region of...

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