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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...

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The redistributive effects of monetary policy

Ledoit, Olivier - 2011

one furthest is worse off. This redistribution channel is independent from the ones previously noted in the literature …

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A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration

Euwals, Rob; Roodenburg, Hans - 2003

In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the earnings of native owners of production factors by...

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Outsourcing, unemployment and welfare policy

Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2008

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … improving by using a redistributive linear income tax if redistribution is initially not too large. We finally derive the … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …

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Preferences for childcare policies: theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

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Preferences for childcare policies: theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008

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Preferences for redistribution and pensions: What can we learn from experiments?

Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - 2010

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on … evidence on preferences for redistribution and suggest some links to redistribution through pensions. For that purpose we …

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Fiscal Decentralization, Redistribution and Growth

Neyapti, Bilin; Bulut-Cevik, Zeynep Burcu - 2011

This paper analyzes the welfare implications of a transfer mechanism in a fiscally decentralized economy where local governments select their tax collection effort to maximize their lifetime utility. We consider a transfer rule that both punishes for the lack of efficiency in tax-collection and...

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Social Insurance and Redistribution

Boadway, Robin; Leite-Monteiro, Manuel; Marchand, Maurice; … - 2002

This paper studies optimal linear income taxation and redistributive social insurance when the former has the traditional labor distortion and the latter generates both ex ante and ex post moral hazard. Private insurance is available and individuals differ in labor productivity and in loss...

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Progressive taxes and the labour market: Is the trade-off between equality and efficiency inevitable?

Røed, Knut; Strøm, Steinar - 1999

objectives, progressive taxes may reduce the need for redistribution in pre-tax wages, and hence increase the demand for low …

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