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Redistribution, inequality and political participation : evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisis

Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2016

This paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and political participation in Mexico. The results show that increases in the coverage of the programme during the 2008 financial crisis resulted in greater individual participation in...

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Measuring income redistribution : beyond the proportionality standard

Urban, Ivica - 2017

Traditional analyses of redistributive effects of the tax-benefit system are rooted in the concepts of relative income inequality and proportionality. This observation also applies to decompositions proposed by Kakwani (1977, 1984) and Lambert (1985) that reveal the vertical and horizontal...

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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness

Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017

A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...

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A class of proximity-sensitive measures of relative deprivation

Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2017

We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order p . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive parameter p , the class is capable of accommodating both a decreasing weight...

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A matter of perspective : how experience shapes preferences for redistribution

Cassar, Lea; Klein, Arnd Heinrich - 2017

for redistribution beyond self-interest. Subjects generated a high or a low income either through a lottery or through an …

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Income, wealth and equal opportunities in Sweden

Pareliussen, Jon Kristian; André, Christophe; … - 2017

redistribution. Migrant settlement and integration need to be better coordinated and adapted to individual starting points. The …

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Minimum wages in the presence of in-kind redistribution

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Moutos, Thomas - 2017

"blunt instrument" for redistribution. To delve deeper in this issue we build models in which workers are heterogeneous in … unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods …-kind redistribution, and (iii) the MW institution is politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution …

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Minimum wages in the presence of in-kind redistribution

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Moutos, Thomas - 2017

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Four levers of redistribution : the impact of tax and transfer systems on inequality reduction

Guillaud, Elvire; Olckers, Matthew; Zemmour, Michaël - 2017

Using observational micro data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we assess the redistributive impact of tax and transfer configurations across 22 OECD countries for the period 1999-2013. After recovering new tax data (employer social contributions), we measure the reduction of income...

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A meritocratic origin of egalitarian behavior

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Möllerström, Johanna; Reme, … - 2019

The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete information about individual performances, but in practice, such...

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