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by an increasing income inequality, we Önd that the middle class declined and income polarization increased. In the …
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The paper looks at the change, the level and the structure of income distribution and distribution of consumption possibilities at the individual and at the household level between the years 1979 and 2000. I also pay attention to the development of low incomes when the concept of income is...
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Different concepts of inequality lead to different positions in discussions about whether economic growth leads to … increasing inequality. This study investigates how over 1,100 young adults in Mozambique perceive inequality and whether their … believe that inequality in their neighbourhood is too high and that circumstances beyond their control explain why some people …
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Government redistribution is increasingly important in today's world. The effect of income distribution on … industrialization and growth, and the causes of income redistribution have been studied in the contemporary literature. The normative … significance of income redistribution, however, which is the focus of this paper, has been rarely studied. In this paper we analyze …
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As billionaires dance in the halls of the second Trump administration, it’s haunting how well Plutarch’s two-thousand-year-old words describe the state of American politics. It’s a barren landscape of plutocratic insatiability. *** How did it get this way? *** One way to tell the story is...
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This paper studies optimal dynamic tax policy under the threat of political reform. A policy will be reformed ex post if a large enough political coalition supports reform; thus, sustainable policies are those that will continue to attract enough political support in the future. We find that...
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In most welfare analyses, especially in the literature on normative inequality measurement, it is a commonplace to …
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We study the political economy of redistribution over a broad class of decision rules. Since the core is generically … full income profile, and in particular, on the preferences of two decisive voters. The effect of increasing inequality on … redistribution depends on the decision rule and the shape of the income distribution; redistribution will increase if both decisive …
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The two main political parties in the United States put forth policies on redistribution and on issues pertaining … two mechanisms through which racism among American voters decreases the degree of redistribution that would otherwise … obtain. Many authors have suggested that voter racism decreases the degree of redistribution due to an anti-solidarity effect …
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and inequality. Finally, from the point of view of labor markets, by aiming to reduce perceived tax-wedges. This could be …
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