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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...

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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2010

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …

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Knowledge is Power - A Theory of Information, Income, and Welfare Spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - CESifo - 2011

No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties to choose political...

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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2015

We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted … economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our … results suggest that there is no robust relationship between economic freedom and income inequality. In addition, we analyze …

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The Tradeoff Between Redistribution and Effort: Evidence from the Field and from the Lab

Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - CESifo - 2012

Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are simultaneously determined. Using cross-country panel data from the World Value Survey, we find that it is important to model preferences for redistribution and effort choices...

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Biased Perceptions of Income Inequality and Redistribution

Engelhardt, Carina; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2014

hypothesis work quite well empirically: there exists a positive link between perceived inequality or perceived upward mobility … inequality and social mobility are used. These observations highlight that political preferences and choices might depend more on …

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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Bastani, Spencer; Blumkin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - CESifo - 2014

In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...

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Optimal Income Taxation, Outsourcing and Policy Cooperation in a Dynamic Economy

Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2009

This paper concerns optimal income taxation in a two-country OLG economy, where each country is characterized by asymmetric information between the government and the private sector, and where one of the countries outsources part of its production to the other. In the country whose firms...

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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation

Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2009

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider...

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Inequality and Redistribution via the Public Provision of Private Goods

Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2004

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We show that inequality may have no discernible effect on the size of redistributive programs. …

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