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, they set up a theoretical model which was rooted in status theory. With this concept, one may explain a certain or optimal …
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The authors set up a political economy equilibrium framework for personal income distribution. Located in status theory …
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redistribution. It shows that when globalization increases inequality, a policymaker interested in maximizing the sum of welfares of … all agents increases redistribution. Empirically, the paper examines the effects of globalization on inequality and … redistribution have been increasing with globalization. The results are robust to the inclusion of many different controls and the …
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Using observational micro data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we assess the redistributive impact of tax and transfer configurations across 22 OECD countries for the period 1999-2013. After recovering new tax data (employer social contributions), we measure the reduction of income...
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Negative externalities, social and environmental responsibility, income effects, market experimentsThis paper reports the results of a large-scale incentivized experiment investigating individuals' fairness perceptions of the extreme income inequalities generated in winner-take-all competitions....
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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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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries accept massive numbers of migrants from poor countries and pay wages that dramatically improve over outside options but are meagre by the standards of natives. As such they do dramatically more per capita to reduce global inequality than do the...
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in income concentration. When performance-based contracts are needed to incentivize effort, redistribution through …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … the short run. To estimate the impact of redistribution to low-income earners, we introduce a new measure, the so …-called net benefit share (NBS). Contrary to other findings, we show that this (targeted) redistribution to lowincome earners (Q1 …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … the short run. To estimate the impact of redistribution to low-income earners, we introduce a new measure, the so …-called net benefit share (NBS). Contrary to other findings, we show that this (targeted) redistribution to low income earners (Q1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014483700