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This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...
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claimed that the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality. The basic … fact become a very weak one. For what it matters, targeting tends to be associated with higher levels of redistribution …
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claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic … fact become a very weak one. For what it matters, targeting tends to be associated with higher levels of redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884086
The present paper seeks to explain the pattern of income redistribution in a globalised world of increased market … income inequality and lower costs of factor mobility. In some countries, larger market income inequality has been met by an …, larger market inequality has been accompanied by a reduction in transfers, thus leading to growth in disposable income …
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This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506088
inequality, redistribution and growth. We also show how different beliefs about fairness can keep two otherwise identical … redistribution. We study the dynamic evolution of different economies in which redistributive policies, perception of fairness …, inequality and growth are jointly determined. We show how including fairness explains various observed relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029382
The present paper seeks to explain the pattern of income redistribution in a globalised world of increased market … income inequality and lower costs of factor mobility. In some countries, larger market income inequality has been met by an …, larger market inequality has been accompanied by a reduction in transfers, thus leading to growth in disposable income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005593814
We study the determinants of people’s attitudes toward income inequality and their economic consequences. We argue that … attitudes toward inequality depend on the extent of freedom of choice and control over life outcomes an individual enjoys. We …
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We note some problems in Alesina and Angeletos (2005) and suggest a way to maintain the key insight of that paper, which is that a demand for fairness could lead to different economic systems such as those observed in France versus the US (multiple equilibria).
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redistributive policies from a stock-flow perspective reveals an artificial blind spot of the prevailing approach to redistribution … and development: wealth redistribution. The prevailing approach generally covers income redistribution and the provision … redistribution. This omission impoverishes the understanding of redistribution and hampers the design of redistributive policies in …
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