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Negative externalities, social and environmental responsibility, income effects, market experimentsThis paper reports the results of a large-scale incentivized experiment investigating individuals' fairness perceptions of the extreme income inequalities generated in winner-take-all competitions....
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A persistent and very high-income inequality is a well known feature of the Brazilian economy. However, from 2001 to 2005 the Gini index presented an unprecedented fall of 4.6 percent combined with significant poverty reduction. Previous studies using partial equilibrium analysis have pointed...
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redistribution. In my model, people sort into groups according to income and as a result they become biased about the shape of the … presence of segregation, and hence to a fall in peoples support for redistribution. I motivate my main assumptions with …
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We experimentally investigate how income redistribution shapes support for economic inclusion, i.e., a policy that … compared to a situation in which this is precluded by design. Income redistribution spreads both risks and returns of … support for economic inclusion. Income redistribution thus induces more equal and efficient outcomes by boosting popular …
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redistribution. In fact, Brazilian income inequity is one of the highest in the world: the wealthiest 1% of population, equivalent to … would be useful as redistribution income instrument among households in Brazil. These results can provide some valuable …
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and redistribution of income generalise to the family of indices based on the extended Ginis of Donaldson and Weymark …
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and redistribution of income generalise to the family of indices based on the extended Ginis of Donaldson and Weymark …
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One prominent strand of the new growth theory has identified the political process as a potential channel to link high … redistribution, (2) which leads to greater redistribution and higher taxes, (3) which is in turn harmful to growth. This article … the idea that public support for redistribution rises with inequality across countries. This finding is attributed to the …
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agents and a welfare state redistributing income. The redistribution scheme is financed by a progressive income tax and gives …
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Flat tax systems have gained traction in countries that transitioned from socialism, with more than 20 nations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia adopting such systems since the mid-1990s. These reforms aimed to streamline tax processes, enhance compliance, and boost economic growth. While...
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