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The state and income inequality in Brazil

Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...

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Redistribution and insurance in the German welfare state

Bartels, Charlotte - 2011

Welfare states redistribute both between individuals (inter-individual redistribution) reducing annual, cross …-sectional inequality and over the lifecycle of an individual (intra-individual redistribution) insuring individuals against income risks in … the long-term. But studies measuring redistribution often focus on a one-year period and the second aspect is neglected …

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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? : evidence from Finland's tax day

Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

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Image concerns and the political economy of publicly provided private goods

König, Tobias; Lausen, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2017

Governments often provide their citizens with goods and services that are also supplied in markets: education, housing, nutritional assistance, etc. We analyze the political economy of the public provision of private goods when individuals care about their social image. We show that image...

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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget

König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...

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Government expenditure in the DINA framework : allocation methods and consequences for post-tax income inequality

Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2022

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation of the entirety of government expenditure to individuals. About half of government expenditure in the United States takes the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g.,...

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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants

Corneo, Giacomo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … redistribution, both the welfare-magnet effect from more redistributive countries and the propensity of the high-skilled to settle in … redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country …

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Ruled by robots : preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices

Chugunova, Marina; Luhan, Wolfgang J. - 2023

negatively to redistribution decisions that do not fit any fairness ideals. Our results suggest that even in the realm of moral …

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Getting it right : communication, voting, and collective truth finding

Burdea, Valeria; Woon, Jonathan - 2023

We conduct an experiment in which groups are tasked with evaluating the truth of a set of politically relevant facts and statements, and we investigate whether communication improves information aggregation and the accuracy of group decisions. Our findings suggest that the effect of...

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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018

public redistribution. Mean levels of welfare vary widely across regions. This is also because social spending achieves litte …

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