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Voting on redistribution with tax evasion
Borck, Rainald - 2003
This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can evade taxes, which leads to penalties if evasion is detected. Since preferences satisfy neither single peakedness nor single crossing, an equilibrium may not exist. When it does...
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Social image concerns and welfare take-up
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2018
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that social image concerns causally reduce the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design manipulates the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on ability or luck, and how...
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2017
lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system …
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How many bucks in a bang : on the estimation of the economic costs of conflict
Groot, Olaf J. de; Brück, Tilman; Bozzoli, Carlos - 2009
The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict costs and second by looking at the existing body of...
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Income redistribution and the political economy of social health insurance : comparing Germany and Switzerland
Breyer, Friedrich - 2001
benefits are not dependent upon income, this implies a redistribution from high to low earners. An exception can be found in … combination of health insurance and income redistribution leads to an expansion or a contraction of the size of a public health … redistribution tends to expand the size of a public health insurance system. The predictions of the model are confronted with …
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Endogenous distribution, politics, and growth
Das, Satya P.; Ghate, Chetan - 2002
This paper generalizes the analysis of distributive conflict, politics, and growth developed by by Alesina-Rodrik (1994). We construct a heterogenous-agent framework in which both growth and the distribution of wealth are endogenous. Due to adjustments in the distribution of wealth, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437002
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Income redistribution, consumer credit, and keeping up with the riches
Klein, Mathias; Krause, Christopher - 2019
In this study, we set up a DSGE model with upward looking consumption comparison and show that consumption externalities are an important driver of consumer credit dynamics. Our model economy is populated by two different household types. Investors, who hold the economy's capital stock, own the...
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Financial support for families with children and its trade-off s balancing redistribution and parental work incentives
Myck, Michał; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michał - 2013
the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009779810
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...
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The rising longevity gap by lifetime earnings : distributional implications for the pension system
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Lüthen, Holger - 2017
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and...
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