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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2015

the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market … processes and the income distribution after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of … ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that …

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Energy Taxes and Natural Gas Demand in EU-Countries

Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - CESifo - 2001

. Traditional tax incidence theory presumes spot markets. Natural gas in the EU-area, however, is to a large extent regulated by …

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Trading Off Generations: Infinitely Lived Agent Versus OLG

Schneider, Maik T.; Traeger, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - CESifo - 2012

The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs in climate change predominantly in terms of the Ramsey equation relying on the infinitely lived agent model. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate our results to the infinitely lived agent...

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Measuring Health Inequality with Categorical Data: Some Regional Patterns

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - CESifo - 2013

Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of...

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Regional Inequality and Internal Conflict

Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level re- gional...

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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare

Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - CESifo - 2012

This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...

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Minimum Wages as a Redistributive Device in the Long Run

Economides, George; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2014

This paper analyzes long run outcomes resulting from adopting a binding minimum wage in a neoclassical model with perfectly competitive labour markets and capital accumulation. The model distinguishes between workers of heterogeneous ability and capitalists who do all the saving, and it entails...

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Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Search Unemployment

Lehmann, Etienne; Parmentier, Alexis; Linden, Bruno Van der - CESifo - 2011

We characterize optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are endogenous. Average tax rates are increasing...

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Evaluating Real World Income Distributions behind the Veil of Ignorance - How Risk Averse do you have to be to Prefer Europe over the US?

Weichenrieder, Alfons; Zafar, Tasneem - CESifo - 2011

The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US rather than any European country in our sample...

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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gerber, Anke; Nicklisch, Andreas; Voigt, Stefan - CESifo - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

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