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redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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This paper studies the relationship between political conflict and economic growth in a simple model of endogenous … growth with distributive conflicts. We study both the case of two "classes" (workers and capitalists) and the case of a … relationship between the political influence of the two groups and the level of taxation, public investment, redistribution of …
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redistribution. Approximately 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive, customized information on U ….S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax. An additional 6 …
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Paying higher salaries is often believed to enhance worker effort, leading workers to work harder to avoid getting fired. However, workers may also respond to higher salaries by focusing on tasks that most directly affect getting fired (as opposed to those that contribute most to productivity)....
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A common feature of many models of voter turnout is that increasing the perceived closeness of the election should increase voter turnout. However, cleanly testing this prediction is difficult and little is known about voter beliefs regarding the closeness of a given race. We conduct a field...
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economy. This amounts to excessively high income redistribution – a negative fiscal externality …
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in the use of transfer policies to improve its bargaining position. In a model of redistribution to lobbies, the … binding cap on efficient subsidies in place, less efficient subsidies will be used for redistribution even when they serve no … the type of redistribution policy with the government, the inefficient policy may still be used in equilibrium. If …
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Following the rationale for regional redistribution programs described in the official documents of the European Union … redistribution policy results from countries' uncoordinated policies, obviating the need for a central agency. But if countries have …
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We compare redistribution through trade restrictions vs. domestic lump-sum transfers. When preferences are non …
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Social contracts about inequality and redistribution are country-specific. We rely on a model of inequality and … redistribution where multiple steady states can emerge in given country. We link the model to the recent literature on beliefs and … we call 'dissipative inclusion', where redistribution and social inclusion are effectively achieved but accompanied by …
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