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agents and a welfare state redistributing income. The redistribution scheme is financed by a progressive income tax and gives …
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This paper provides a detailed empirical assessment of the evolution of income inequality and the redistributive effects of the tax and transfer system following the 2007–2008 crisis. It focuses on the U.S. case, drawing on data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) for the period...
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conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for …. At an aggregate level, a rise in redistribution induces a compression effect on the distribution of pre-tax returns. In … the financial market, I identify general equilibrium trickle-up externalities that provide a force for more redistribution …
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We look at the effect of domestic redistribution policy on offshoring in an asymmetric two country model of … monopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and occupational choice. The redistribution scheme is modeled by a combination of a … progressive income tax and a lump-sum transfer. We find that the redistribution scheme lowers the degree of globalization measured …
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We use a highly-controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases on redistribution …-personal decreases create dissatisfaction for an individual, that person may support redistribution policies that compensate him or her … experience decreasing wages. While many studies examine the effect of income inequality on redistribution decisions, this is the …
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-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of Germans. We measure how individuals form perceptions of their ranks in the …
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experiment shows that respondents do not account for parental influence on economic success when making (re-)distribution …-scale survey experiments. In the first experiment, we randomly inform respondents about the relationship between parental income …
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determinants of redistribution support, in line with hypothesised patterns. We find that while differences in beliefs on what …
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Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential …
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