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income distribution and the redistribution tastes of the government. When behavioral responses are concentrated along the …
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relationship between the political influence of the two groups and the level of taxation, public investment, redistribution of …
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immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical … literature on the effects of racial diversity and immigration on support for redistribution in the US and Europe …
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affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S.. Americans are more optimistic than … redistribution, mostly for "equality of opportunity" policies. We find a strong political polarization. Left-wing respondents are … more pessimistic about mobility, their preferences for redistribution are correlated with their mobility perceptions, and …
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the concurrent decline in welfare-state redistribution. This paper develops a model, which can provide an explanation for …-economy balance and the redistributive policies. The paper highlights the differences in the political-economy induced redistribution …
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This paper evaluates the role of redistribution in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy to consumption. Three …
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redistribution in democratic societies. An infinite-horizon theoretical model is developed, and the properties of the equilibrium tax …
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economy. This amounts to excessively high income redistribution – a negative fiscal externality …
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members choose either a risky reform or a safe alternative each period. When no redistribution is allowed the unique … equilibrium outcome is generically inefficient. When redistribution is allowed (even small amounts), there always exists an … policy experimentation is possible only with a sufficient amount of redistribution. We conclude that veto rights are more of …
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Should a nation's tax system become more progressive as it opens to trade? Does opening to trade change the benefits of a progressive tax system? We answer these question within a standard incomplete markets model with frictional labor markets and Ricardian trade. Consistent with empirical...
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