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Culture, Diversity, and the Welfare State
Gründler, Klaus - 2018
. Apart from their direct effects, these traits also exert indirect impact by influencing the transmission of inequality to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924453
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Political Institutions and Income (Re-)Distribution : Evidence from Developed Economies
Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2021
We discuss the effect of formal political institutions (electoral systems, fiscal decentralization, presidential and parliamentary regimes) on the extent and direction of income (re-)distribution. Empirical evidence is presented for a large sample of 70 economies and a panel of 13 OECD countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315720
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The Political Economy of Redistribution Policy
Bellani, Luna - 2016
We review the literature on the public choice approach to explaining redistribution policies. The focus is on policies that are pursued with the sole reason to redistribute initial endowments. Moreover, we restrict ourselves to redistribution in democracies. In democratic settings, generic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977205
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Political Institutions and Income (Re-)Distribution: Evidence from Developed Economies
Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - CESifo - 2013
We discuss the effect of formal political institutions (electoral systems, fiscal decentralization, presidential and parliamentary regimes) on the extent and direction of income (re-) distribution. Empirical evidence is presented for a large sample of 70 economies and a panel of 13 OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877914
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - CESifo - 2010
Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727303
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Pareto-Improving Unemployment Policies
Lingens, Jörg; Wälde, Klaus - CESifo - 2006
We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181537
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The Subversive Nature of Inequality : Subjective Inequality Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Inequality
Kuhn, Andreas - 2016
This paper shows that higher levels of perceived wage inequality are associated with a weaker (stronger) belief into … that those individuals perceiving a high level of wage inequality also tend to be more supportive of redistributive … policies and progressive taxation, and that they tend to favor the political left, suggesting a feedback effect of inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984497
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Asymmetries in Earnings, Employment and Wage Risk in Great Britain
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour market quantities for Great Britain. We use data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for 1991-2008 and from the BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958452
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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance
Lindbeck, Assar - 2010
In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141884
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Labor Market Policies and European Crises
Bertola, Giuseppe - CESifo - 2013
This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706002