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Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Welfare State: A Political Economy Model

Bossi, Luca; Gumus, Gulcin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. …

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How Tight Are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data

Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the antipoverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both benefit entitlement...

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Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges

Immervoll, Herwig - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the principal instrument for delivering social protection. Such safety-net benefits aim primarily at...

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No Claim, No Pain: Measuring the Non-Take-up of Social Assistance Using Register Data

Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to high non-take-up rates, existing evidence does not make full use of the...

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Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Cruces, Guillermo; Perez Truglia, Ricardo; Tetaz, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

agents’ biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies. …

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Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Gupta, Bhanu; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines how local politics affects public fund allocations. It uses the context of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congress (INC). Using longitudinal data on funds sanctioned and election results from three...

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Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market incomes. Over the whole period 1979-2007 the cumulative tax policy effect aggravated income inequality...

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The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited: And That It May Rest in Peace?

Marx, Ive; Salanauskaite, Lina; Verbist, Gerlinde - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

fact become a very weak one. For what it matters, targeting tends to be associated with higher levels of redistribution …

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Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization

Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

citizens’ support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy …

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Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct effects of policy reforms. While tax reforms implemented under Democrat administrations, in...

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