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Accounting for private health care expenses in measures of nations' redistributive effort
Baird, Katherine - 2018
As health care costs rise, so too does the importance of assessing their incidence, and factoring these costs into measures of post-government income distribution. This paper contributes to this assessment by calculating the effect of government policy on the distribution of income by adjusting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928593
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The empirics of the median voter : democracy, redistribution and the role of the middle class
Scervini, Francesco - 2009
The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution … inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the median voter theorem seems not to be the driving force of this mechanism …, the elasticity of redistribution to poor classes to their income has decreased over the last decade, suggesting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881703
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Empirics of the median voter: democracy, redistribution and the role of the middle class
Scervini, Francesco - In: Journal of economic inequality 10 (2012) 4, pp. 529-550
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009709676
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Chapter 21. Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Naidu, Suresh; Restrepo, Pascual; … - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1885-1966). 2015
In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution, and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail … broadly consistent with a view that is different from the traditional median voter model of democratic redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025324
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Decomposing world income distribution : does the world have a middle class?
Milanovic, Branko - 2001
In Asia inequality in income between countries is more important than inequality within countries. In Africa, Latin America, and western Europe and North America, by contrast, there are only small differences between countries; inequality within countries is more important. And when countries...
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Decomposing world income distribution : does the world have a middle class?
Milanović, Branko; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 48 (2002) 2, pp. 155-178
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001701658
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Decomposing world income distribution : does the world have a middle class?
Milanović, Branko; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001566389
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Decomposing World Income Distribution : Does the World Have a Middle Class?
Milanovic, Branko - 2016
inequality between the individuals in the world, by continent and by region(countries grouped by income level). They use a Gini … the inequality on these continents is explained by inequality within countries). Next the authors divide the world into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747476
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Global earnings inequality, 1970 - 2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645689
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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647672