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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William R. - 2012

-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …

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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William R. - 2016

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The state and income inequality in Brazil

Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...

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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world

Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2018

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In … role in welfare states with aging societies. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from …

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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world

Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2020

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …

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Do welfare state taxes and transfers reduce gender income inequality? : evidence from eight European countries

Avram, Silvia; Popova, Daria - 2020

We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect the incomes of men and women. Using microsimulation and intra-household income splitting rules, we measure the differences in the level and composition of individual disposable...

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What Kind of Welfare State Do You Prefer? An Experiment on Framing the Social Insurance Scheme

Farina, Francesco - 2015

A real-effort experiment is conducted in order to detect preferences for one of three different models of Welfare State characterized by different schemes of tax-and-transfers. Experimental subjects have to choose (both under and without veil of ignorance concerning their position in the society...

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Problems of Equity in the Welfare State : Taxation, Social Welfare Transfers and the Fairness of One's Income from Employment (Gerechtigkeitsprobleme im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Besteuerung, Wohlfahrtsstaatliche Transfers und die Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens)

Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - 2011

Problems of equity in the welfare state: taxation, social welfare transfers and the fairness of one's income from employment The article discusses the conflict of goals between fair compensation for performance and equitable support based on need in modern welfare states, which is a subject of...

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The welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries

Marx, Ive; Nolan, Brian; Olivera, Javier - 2014

This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area...

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Redistribution within the tax-benefit system in Austria

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Lorenz, Hanno; … - 2020

The aim of this study is to analyze redistribution within the Austrian tax-benefit system. In this work we take a … two kinds of redistribution: between the households belonging to different income groups, and between generations, taking …

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