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National Identity and Support for the Welfare State

Johnston, Richard; Banting, Keith; Kymlicka, Will; … - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2010

, they contend, can both mitigate opposition to redistribution among high-income earners and reduce any corroding effects of … redistribution, but it may do so for those aspects of the welfare state seen as having played a particularly important role in …

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2010

less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

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Redistribution and Subsidies for Higher Education

Bevia, Carmen; I?go Iturbe-Ormaetxe - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, …

adequate redistribution in favor of their own children at some time in the future. …

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"Que critérios redistributivos na Lei das Finanças Locais?"

Mourão, Paulo Reis - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2005

This work aims the set of redistributive policies (Factor endowments, Utilitarianism or Rawlsians) that is more significant in the Portugues Law of Local Finances. For this purpose, it starts from a model, which tries to relate the partition of a budget (that is distributed by decentralised...

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Monitoring Job Search as an Instrument for Targeting Transfers

Boadway, Robin; Cuff, Katherine - Centre de Recherche sur l'Emploi et les Fluctuations … - 1999

Redistribution programs are constrained because those not working may be either unable to work, voluntarily unemployed … programmes de redistribution sont contraints par le fait que les sans-emploi peuvent être des individus inaptes au travail …

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Redistribution and Employment Policies with Endogenous Unemployment

Boadway, Robin; Cuff, Katherine; Marceau, Nicolas - Centre de Recherche sur l'Emploi et les Fluctuations … - 2000

We study the features of optimal transfers to the non-employed which include those unable to work, the voluntarily unemployed, and the involuntarily unemployed. Both voluntary and involuntary unemployment are endogenous. We analyze optimal government policies in the presence of two types of...

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A Theory of Political Transitions

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James - Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of … - 1999

relationship between inequality and redistribution is nonmonotonic; societies with intermediate levels of unequality consolidate … democracy and redistribute more than both very equal and very unequal countries. We also show that asset redistribution, such as …

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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2009

' domestic outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some offshoring, and it … for the generosity of the welfare state below which redistribution becomes less instead of more distortive. …

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - Institut für Außenhandel und Wirtschaftsintegration, … - 2009

less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008556265

On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557077