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Exports, unemployment and the welfare state

Janeba, Eckhard - 2007

cannot easily switch industries and wages are inflexible in the short run, globalization tends to increase unemployment. In …The paper analyzes the labor market effects of globalization when foreign market entry is costly and risky. With … this situation, government unemployment benefits reduce the wages that exporting firm's need to pay workers as risk …

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Welfare Policies, Labour Taxation and International Integration

Andersen, Torben M. - 2001

How will international integration affect welfare policies? This paper considers the possibilities of financing public sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general (wage) taxation in an economy which becomes more integrated in international product markets. Even...

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Exports, unemployment and the welfare state

Janeba, Eckhard - 2007

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Efficient redistribution: comparing basic income with unemployment benefits

FitzRoy, Felix; Jin, Jim - 2010

We compare two systems of income redistribution: unemployment benefits (UB) and basic income (BI). First, for a simple … margins. For given unemployment, lowering UB and raising BI always benefits the unemployed, raises utilitarian welfare and … benefits a poor majority. Reducing unemployment and UB simultaneously can benefit a majority of the employed as well as all …

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Are two tax rates better than one?

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim - 2009

Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? We provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result clarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. If we maximize total...

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What determines top income shares? Evidence from the twentieth century

Roine, Jesper; Vlachos, Jonas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007

This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire twentieth century. We focus on three groups of income earners: the rich (P99-100), the upper middle class (P90-99), and the rest of the population (P0-90). The results show that...

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Trade and the political economy of redistribution

Vannoorenberghe, Gonzague; Janeba, Eckhard - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of trade liberalisation on the political support for policies that redistribute income between workers in different sectors. We allow for worker heterogeneity and imperfect mobility of workers across sectors, giving rise to a trade-off between redistribution and...

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