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Chapter 25. Inequality, Technology and the Social Contract
Bénabou, Roland - 2005
The distribution of human capital and income lies at the center of a nexus of forces that shape a country’s economic, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyze these interactions and their growth consequences. Five main issues are addressed. First, I...
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Voting over redistribution in the Meltzer-Richard model under interdependent labor inputs
Lopez-Velasco, Armando R. - In: Economics letters 192 (2020), pp. 1-3
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Epper, Thomas; Fehr, Ernst; Senn, Julien - 2020
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Support for redistribution may also be affected by altruistic and egalitarian preferences, but knowledge about the … redistribution in a broad sample of the Swiss population. Based on a recently developed non-parametric clustering procedure, we …
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Preferences for social protection: Theory and empirics
Di Gioacchino, Debora; Sabani, Laura; Tedeschi, Simone - In: Economic Modelling 36 (2014) C, pp. 629-644
Empirical cross-country evidence suggests that countries position themselves along a sort of Market Regulation (MR)-Social Expenditure (SE) trade-off “line”. Theoretically, it is clear that there exists a certain degree of substitutability between SE and MR, since both can provide a cushion...
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Knowledge is power : a theory of information, income, and welfare spending
Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011
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Knowledge is power : a theory of information, income, and welfare spending
Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011
in line with our theory. -- Redistribution ; Welfare Spending ; Information ; Income ; Voting ; Political Economics …
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Inequality, ethnic diversity, and redistribution
Houle, Christian - In: Journal of economic inequality 15 (2017) 1, pp. 1-23
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Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …
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Strengthening social cohesion in Luxembourg : making efficiency and equity go hand in hand
Fournier, Jean-Marc; García, Clara - 2013
Luxembourg is a rich and fast-growing country. However, inequality of disposable incomes has trended up modestly over the past decades and relative poverty has risen reflecting mainly the rapid growth of high incomes. The relatively high inequality of market incomes is substantially reduced by...
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An empirical investigation on the drivers of income redistribution across OECD countries
Causa, Orsetta; Vindics, Anna; Akgun, Oguzhan - 2018
This paper provides an empirical investigation on the drivers of tax and transfer income redistribution to working …. The analytical approach is based on a reduced-form model of income redistribution which is estimated through cross …-country-time series regressions. The baseline model builds on the political economy literature of income redistribution and includes a set …
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