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The paradox of redistribution in time : social spending in 53 countries, 1967-2018

Garcia-Fuente, Xabier - 2021

Korpi and Palme (1998) famously suggested the existence of a Paradox of Redistribution:although programs targeted to … harmonized by LIS. My results showthat the relationship between the redistribution obtained by social transfers and their pro … the rich are unable to reachdown the income ladder and remain stuck at very low levels of redistribution.This reflects how …

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Shallow meritocracy: an experiment on fairness views

Andre, Peter - 2021

Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...

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The distributional impacts of fiscal policy : the case of the Philippines

Son, Hyun H. - 2022

The distributional impacts of fiscal policies are instrumental in reducing inequality in countries like the Philippines, where inequality has been persistently high. This paper assesses how equitable various taxes and transfers in the Philippines are by deriving the elasticities of Atkinson and...

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Inequality, life expectancy, and the intragenerational redistribution puzzle - some experimental evidence

Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022

In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

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Impact of trade on inequality : new evidence of what, when, and where

Siddique, Abu Bakkar - In: CESifo economic studies : a joint initiative of the … 67 (2021) 4, pp. 405-439

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Is funding a large universal basic income feasible? : a quantitative analysis of UBI with endogenous labour supply

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Jaravel, Xavier - In: LSE public policy review 1 (2020) 2, pp. 1-11

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Inequality and growth : a review on a great open debate in economics

Baselgia, Enea; Foellmi, Reto - 2022

What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for more than a century. This article critically reviews the recent empirical and theoretical literature on the complex interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality...