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Inequality and Economic Growth: The Perspective of the New Growth Theories

Garcia-Penalosa, Cecilia; Aghion, Philippe; Caroli, Eve - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 1999

impact of inequality and the positive effect of redistribution upon growth. The second part analyzes several mechanisms …

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Wealth networks with local redistribution

Kim, Sunggon; Kim, Gwang Il; Lee, Geymin - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 19, pp. 4973-4981

We propose a growing network model of the distribution of wealth in a society with local redistribution. Individuals … interaction is affected by the redistribution of wealth. It is investigated how rich nodes attract the individuals entering the …, while for the richest it shows a power-law behavior. We also show that the local redistribution of wealth has a significant …

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The political economy of linguistic cleavages

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 322-338

deep cleavages, originating thousands of years ago, lead to better predictors of civil conflict and redistribution. The …

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Constitutions as self-enforcing redistributive schemes

Filipovich, Dragan; Sempere, Jaume - In: Economics of Governance 9 (2008) 2, pp. 103-129

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Redistribution and the Nature of Altruism: Should Welfare Programs be Centralized or Decentralized?

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Cappelen, Alexander - In: Economics of Governance 7 (2006) 2, pp. 133-142

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Redistributing to the sick: How should health expenditures be integrated into the tax system?

Jack, Billy - Georgetown University, Department of Economics - 2003

prices for leisure and health. First-best redistribution based on potential wage rates and health status is not feasible …

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Public Opinion and the Dynamics of Reform

Jain, Sanjay; Mukand, Sharun - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

reforms change the balance of political power in such a way as to make future redistribution less likely, then public opinion …

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Public Transfers to the Poor: Is Europe really more Generous than the United States?

Collado, M. Dolores; Ormaetxe, Iñigo Iturbe - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2008

Fighting poverty is one of the main goals in the most societies. This is usually done by the transferring resources to the poor. There exists a widespread view that the European countries are more generous to the poor than the United States. We study whether this is really the case. Firts we...

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Migration and the Welfare State: The Economic Power of the Non-Voter?

Boerner, Kira; Uebelmesser, Silke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

redistribution policies. The interaction of the two e¤ects has so far not been analyzed in isolation. We find that the direction of … redistribution levels. …

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Achieving stability in heterogeneous societies: multi-jurisdictional structures, and redistribution policies

Alexey, Savvateev - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2004

Consider a “linear world” populated by several agents. These agents’ locations are identified with optimal variety of a horizontally differentiated local public good. Agents are to be partitioned into several communities (hereafter, groups), and each group chooses a variety of public good...

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