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Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time : Ireland 1987 - 2005

Bargain, Olivier; Keane, Claire - 2010

By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...

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Growth and income redistribution components of changes in poverty : a decomposition analysis for Ireland, 1987 - 2005

Are, Wasiu Adekunle - 2012

This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … changes into growth and redistribution components revealed that the growth component dominates the redistribution component in …

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Optimal taxation, social contract and the four worlds of welfare capitalism

Bargain, Olivier; Spadaro, Amedeo - 2008

Rawlsianism of some European social planner starting from the observation of the real data and redistribution systems and uses it … to build a metric that allows measuring the degree of (dis)similarity of the redistribution systems analyzed. It must be … distributions of incomes before and after redistribution are obtained using a pan-European tax-benefit microsimulation model …

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Social trust and the support for universal basic income

Gubello, Michele - 2023

This paper presents a theoretical model showing how political mistrust affects people's preferences for Universal Basic Income (UBI) when its implementation involves a reduction in spending for other public services (welfare retrenchment). The model shows that individuals with lower levels of...

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An alternative measure of economic inequality in the light of optics

Majumder, Amlan - 2014

An ideal state of development, when viewed with fantasy, is nothing but a state or condition where light touches everybody without refraction. The diagonal line of the Lorenz Curve Framework represents such an ideal condition. In the presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from...

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The economics of justice as fairness

Abatemarco, Antonio; Stroffolini, Francesca - 2017

In this paper we challenge the common interpretation of Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness by showing that this Theory, as outlined in the Restatement (Rawls 2001), goes well beyond the definition of a distributive value judgment, in such a way as to embrace efficiency issues as well. A simple...

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Redistribution across Europe : how much and to whom?

Hammer, Bernhard; Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia - 2021

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#MeToo...or not? : do salient shocks affect gender social norms?

Lago, Manuel E. - 2023

Previous research has documented the importance and persistence of social norms, but there is limited understanding of whether they are capable of changing in the short run. Utilizing data from Sweden and Denmark, this article addresses this gap by testing whether significant local shocks may...

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Do politicians shirk when reelection is certain? : evidence from the German parliament

Bernecker, Andreas - 2013 - This version: July 2013

Does stiffer electoral competition reduce political rent-seeking behavior? For a microanalysis of this question, I construct a new data set spanning the years 2005 to 2012 covering biographical and political information of German members of parliament (MPs) and including attendance rates in...

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Immigrant voters, taxation and the size of the welfare state

Chevalier, Arnaud; Elsner, Benjamin; Lichter, Andreas; … - 2018

effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially … higher demand for redistribution more than 50 years later. …

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