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. Stabilizing their baseline income can make workers more tolerant of inequality. We present evidence of this attitude in the UK by … Survey, we show that workers that benefited from the NMW program became relatively more tolerant of inequality and more …
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Unique administrative data on a representative population's cognitive abilities, spending, and financials reveal that consumers at or below median cognitive abilities barely react when their incentives to spend or borrow change, even if they earn high incomes and are financially unconstrained...
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Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once we account for informal consumption. Using household expenditure surveys in 32 countries we proxy for informal consumption using the type of store where...
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In well-functioning democracies, the policymaking process should in principle respond to persistent economic inequality … that elected representatives eventually supply through policies designed to alleviate inequality. Policymaking constraints … explanations for the continuing high inequality observed in the region. Countries with stronger democracies have adopted more …
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helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like …
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This study investigates the relationship between distinct types of inequality and CO2 emissions using panel data on 156 … that pre-distribution (inequality reduction by structural changes and social protection) is better aligned with the goal of … carbon emission reduction than redistribution (inequality reduction by transfers). However, those countries who contribute …
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, which supports empirical research. Inequality does not appear to be harmful for the environment, and it dampens the effect …
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according to which (1) rising inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed …, as well as the specific inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly …
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' current income a lump-sum tax reduces inequality if all parents have strict investment incentives. However, if some parents …
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