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In search of a paradox of redistribution analysis of fiscal redistribution in high-income countries

Coady, David P. - 2023

The last decade has seen a sharp increase in interest in the possible existence of a Paradox of Redistribution (PoR …

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Redistributive impacts of civil war : the case of Côte d'Ivoire

Hlásny, Vladimír - 2023

Many of the world's LDCs are plagued by recurring conflict. Conflict impedes sustainable development through various channels, creating conditions conducive to further conflict. Conflict has redistributive impacts, particularly when it erupts in resource-rich countries. Between 2002 and 2011,...

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Redistributive impacts of fiscal policies in Mexico : corrections for top income measurement problems

Hlásny, Vladimír - 2019

This study assesses the redistributive impacts of fiscal instruments in a 2014 Mexican household budget survey (ENIGH) correcting for potential top-income measurement problems. We use two correction methods based on within-survey information to re-estimate the redistributive impacts of...

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Relative income distribution in six European countries : market and disposable income

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The outcome of this process entails relevant information about...

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The empirics of the median voter : democracy, redistribution and the role of the middle class

Scervini, Francesco - 2009

The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution … inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the median voter theorem seems not to be the driving force of this mechanism …, the elasticity of redistribution to poor classes to their income has decreased over the last decade, suggesting a …

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Taxation of families and "families of taxation"? : inequality modification between family types across welfare states

Schechtl, Manuel - 2020 - This version: 22.07.2020

Previous sociological research has overlooked the fact that a welfare state’s tax system does not solely redistribute from rich to poor (vertical) but also between family types (horizontal). Different types of families are treated differently due to (de-)familialization policies in the tax...

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Pension institutions and income inequality across European societies : Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom

Neugschwender, Jörg - 2015

This paper analyses major pension system regulation in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. It is focused on the government's and social partner's efforts to provide old-age security benefits, and how these regulatory approaches have shaped the current...

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Social welfare, inequality and deprivation

Magdalou, Brice (contributor); Moyes, Patrick (contributor) - 2008

We provide a characterization of the generalised satisfaction - in our terminology nondeprivation - quasi-ordering introduced by S.R. Chakravarty (Keio Economic Studies 34 (1997), 17-32) for making welfare comparisons based on the absence of deprivation. We show that the non-deprivation...

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Trade, inequality, and subjective well-being : getting at the roots of the backlash against globalization

Dluhosch, Barbara - 2018

Many countries in the Western hemisphere are currently experiencing a backlash against globalization. Most of the research examining the issue has concentrated on international specialization and within-country income inequality as main drivers of the backlash. Doing so, the discussion has...

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Anatomy of income inequality in the United States : 1979-2013

Hadavand, Aboozar - 2017

This paper provides a novel analysis of the trend in income inequality in the United States between 1979-2013. There are two ways in which this paper contributes to the literature. First, I analyze how much of the existing inequality in the U.S. is due to the demographic changes that happened...

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