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Trust, welfare states and income equality : what causes what?

Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2013

The cross-country correlation between social trust and income equality is well documented, but few studies examine the direction of causality. We show theoretically that by facilitating cooperation, trust may increase efficiency and lead to more equal outcomes, while the feedback from inequality...

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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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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World

Bartels, Charlotte - 2018

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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States Around the World

Bartels, Charlotte - 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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823316

Volunteering and Life or Financial Shocks : Does Income and Wealth Matter?

Beatton, Tony - 2014

Volunteering is a dominant social force that signals a healthy state. However, although the literature on volunteering is extensive, knowledge on how life's discontinuities (life event shocks) affect volunteering is limited because most studies work with static (cross-sectional) data. To reduce...

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Freedom or Equality? (Liberté Ou éGalité?)

Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2006

What is freedom? What is equality? In which way can greater equality increase freedom? Such are the main questions which this paper tries to answer. The problem of the choice between freedom and equality indeed raises the problem of the definition of these two objects. Once this definition is...

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Exploding Tax Havens and Inequality : Donor-Advised Funds in Focus

Caldararo, Niccolo Leo - 2016

Tax havens and their relation to inequality has been a subject of recent attention. The release of the Panama Papers has focused attention on offshore schemes in this end. However, changes in the tax code have made many obvious tax evasion activities perfectly legal, as in the case of...

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Corruption, judicial accountability and inequality : unfair procedures may benefit the worst-off

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2019

We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and investigate this empirically using data from 145 countries 1960.2014. We relate perceived corruption and de facto judicial accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption...

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The political Kuznets curve for Russia : income inequality, rent seeking regional elites and empirical determinants of protests during 2011/2012

Hagemann, Harald; Kufenko, Vadim - 2013 - korr. Version

The goal of this paper is to apply the theory of the political Kuznets curve to Russia and reveal the key determinants of the probability of recent protests during 2011-2012 in the Russian regions. We apply the political Kuznets curve in the time and spatial dimensions, and find mixed evidence:...

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