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Who cares? : attitudes towards redistribution and fiscal austerity

Brown, Sarah; Kontonikas, Alexandros; Montagnoli, Alberto; … - 2021

We present new evidence showing that fiscal austerity strengthens support for redistribution, especially for the … relatively well-off. Our theoretical model proposes two mechanisms to explain this heterogeneity in support for redistribution …

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Vertical and horizontal redistribution : the case of Western and Eastern Europe

Bussolo, Maurizio; Krolage, Carla; Makovec, Mattia; … - 2018

deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their … individuals may not only care about vertical redistribution, but also about the economic situation of the specific groups they … belong to, the horizontal dimension of redistribution becomes politically salient and can be a source of social tensions. We …

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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2019

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...

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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2018

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The consequences of inequality : beliefs and redistributive preferences

Lobeck, Max; Støstad, Morten Nyborg - 2023

What matters for individuals' preferences for redistribution? In this paper we show that consequentialist beliefs about … shape a distinct conversation about redistribution. …

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A unified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy

Kaplow, Louis - 2020

Specialized theoretical and empirical research should in principle be embedded in a unified framework that identifies the relevant interactions among different phenomena, enables an appropriate matching of policy instruments to objectives, and grounds normative analysis in individuals' utilities...

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Chapter 10 Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007

This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...

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The redistribution of trade gains when income inequality matters

De Pinto, Marco - In: Economies : open access journal 3 (2015) 4, pp. 186-215

How does a redistribution of trade gains affect welfare when income inequality matters? To answer this question, we … extend the [1] model to unionized labor markets and heterogeneous workers. As redistribution schemes, we consider … redistribution scheme is to finance unemployment benefits by a wage tax. …

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Smoothing the adjustment to trade liberalization

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Mileva, Mariya - 2014

We use a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous workers and endogenous firm entry to analyze economic policy meant to compensate the losers of trade liberalization and reduce the ensuing wage inequality. We consider several...

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Households, markets and public choice

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2014 - This Version: August 2014

We develop a model that combines competitive exchange of private commodities across endogenously formed groups with public good provision and global collective decisions. There is a tension between local and global collective decisions. In particular, we show that group formation and collective...

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