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Fairness and Redistribution : Us Versus Europe

Alesina, Alberto F.; Angeletos, George-Marios - 2016

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the … their effort, it will choose low redistribution and low taxes. In equilibrium, effort will be high, the role of luck limited … income inequality and choices of redistributive policies …

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Tax preferences, partisanship and perceptions of society : evidence from Austria

Zens, Gregor; Warum, Philipp - 2019

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Perception of Inequality and Social Mobility in Germany : evidence from the Inequality Barometer

Bellani, Luna; Bledow, Nona; Busemeyer, Marius R.; … - 2021

The Inequality Barometer is an online survey first conducted in Germany in 2020. It gauges individual perceptions of … multiple aspects of inequality and social mobility as well as a range of policy preferences related to inequality. Responses … inequality and social mobility. In sum, we find that respondents underestimate the extent of inequality in important ways, which …

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Risk-aversion and social mobility : the impossibility of order-preserving income redistributions

Danziger, Leif; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2000

redistributions. Nonetheless, the social-mobility argument for redistribution is not satisfactory, as actual transition probabilities …

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Imperfect information and the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis

Bredemeier, Christian - 2010

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Essays on heterogeneous agents : political economy and labor markets

Bredemeier, Christian - 2010

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Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms

Levell, Peter; Roantree, Barra; Shaw, Jonathan - 2016

The distributional impact of proposed reforms plays a central role in public debates around tax and transfer policy. We show that accounting for realistic patterns of mobility in employment, earnings and household circumstances over the life-cycle greatly affects our assessment of the...

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Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms

Levell, Peter; Roantree, Barra; Shaw, Jonathan - 2017

This paper examines the distributional impact of increases to out-of-work transfers, increases to work-contingent transfers, and increases in higher rates of income tax over the whole of life. We find that, in contrast to what is implied by standard snapshot analyses, increases to...

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The impact of subjective social status, inequality perceptions, and inequality tolerance on demand for redistribution : the case of a highly unequal society

Kirsten, Frederich; Botha, Ilse; Biyase, Mduduzi; … - In: Journal for studies in economics and econometrics : SEE 46 (2022) 2, pp. 125-148

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The Scandinavian fantasy : the sources of intergenerational mobility in Denmark and the U.S.

Landersø, Rasmus; Heckman, James J. - 2016

This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities in income and educational mobility in both countries....

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