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Ideology, Tactics, and Efficiency in Redistributive Politics

Dixit, Avinash K.; Londregan, John Benedict - 2010

We model the electoral politics of redistribution. Taxation has efficiency and equity effects. Citizens and parties …

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Exposure to conflict, migrations and long-run education and income inequality : evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Efendic, Adnan; Kovač, Dejan; Shapiro, Jacob N. - 2022

We investigate the long-term relationship between conflict-related migration and individual socioeconomic inequality … municipality-representative survey (n≈6,000) that captured self-reported education and income outcomes as well as migration … policies intended to address migration-related discrepancies should be targeted on the basis of individual and family …

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Midijob reform : increased redistribution in pension insurance : noticeable costs, relief not well targeted

Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 13 (2023) 7, pp. 63-70

by a redistribution within the social insurance funds. Such redistribution, however, contradicts the equivalence … want to redistribute funds in the statutory pension insurance system, they should readjust the redistribution to make it …

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Critical remarks on Piketty’s ’Capital in the twenty-first century’

Homburg, Stefan - 2014

This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.

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Bracket creep revisited : progressivity and a solution by adjusting the rich tax in Germany

Flores Unzaga, Ismael Martin; Zhu, Junyi - 2014 - Preprint, Preliminary

micro-simulation model developed for the newly available PHF data, we document an inverted U-shaped overall redistribution … fiscally possible, it can totally offset the decrease of global redistribution effect from indexation. Our results echo the …

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Should income inequality be praised? : multiple public goods provision, income distribution and social welfare

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016

voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged. …

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Basic income advocates, sober up

Marx, Ive - 2024

Basic income advocates see a universal income grant, no questions asked, as bringing many potential benefits, not in the least as an ironclad protection against poverty, if set high enough. It is hard to know with any certainty what a world with a sizeable basic income would look like but we can...

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Heating and electricity expenses : saving incentives not impacting basic income recipients

Felder, Lars; Haan, Peter; Bach, Stefan; Schill, Wolf-Peter - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 13 (2023) 14/16, pp. 113-118

Basic income benefits cover recipients' actual heating expenses as long as they are not unusually high. In contrast, their electricity expenses are only covered via a lump sum at the standard rate. Thus, basic income recipients have weaker incentives for reducing their heating expenses than for...

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Income Distribution Determinants and Public Spending Efficiency

Afonso, António - 2010

This paper examines the impact of public spending on income distribution in OECD countries, paying attention in particular to the impact of the quality of education and public institutions. The paper assesses the efficiency of public spending in improving income distribution by using Data...

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Redistribution and Risk Sharing in Italy : Learning from the Past

Petraglia, Carmelo - 2017

This paper investigates the role of public policies in Italy by assessing both the redistribution and risk sharing … dynamics of regional convergence. Moving from 1951–65 to 1983–92, interregional redistribution increases from 10%–18% to 19 …

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