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understanding of redistribution mechanisms within countries and facilitates crosscountry comparisons. As a first step, our analysis …
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examined countries. While direct taxes and cash benefits are the main drivers of redistribution, in-kind benefits also play a … EU Member States. Our new, broader approach allows for more accurate assessments of redistribution and cross …
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We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the … available in the SOEP for 2012 only. While the relative raw gender wealth gap is about 35% (or 31,000 euros) when analysing the …
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working-age households with low income. Using EUROMOD-based microdata from 28 countries, we (a) quantify the redistribution to … insights into the distributive role of tax-benefit systems across Europe. Interestingly, a strong overall redistribution …
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The increasing flows of immigrants in Europe over the last decade has generated a range of considerations in the policy agenda of many receiving countries. One of the main considerations for policy makers and public opinions alike is whether immigrants contribute their ”fair” share to their...
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, pointing to the marriage-biased and gender-biased taxbenefit structures in the analysed countries. Our results suggest that …
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Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...
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redistribution; one that departs from the prevailing view that UK inequality stopped rising from the early 1990s. …
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In a post land reformenvironment, violence and redistribution are substitutes for an opportunistic incumbent attempting … strong evidence for our theoretical prediction of an inverse relationship between land redistribution and both types of …
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, influence attitudes toward wealth redistribution. Weber suggested that the Protestant Reformation, led to the belief that … "blessed" framing, we measure how participants' redistribution behaviors change when primed with this narrative. Our results … findings suggest that religious narratives significantly shape economic behaviors and preferences for redistribution, providing …
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