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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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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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(Re-)Distribution of Personal Incomes, Education and Economic Performance Across Countries

Rehme, Günther - CESifo - 2002

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this … partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined …

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Does Liberté = Egalité? A Survey of the Empirical Evidence on the Links between Political Democracy and Income Inequality

Gradstein, Mark; Milanovic, Branko - CESifo - 2000

appears to have caused a high degree of economic inequality, and democratization in the form of franchise expansion has … between other measures of democracy, based on civil liberties and political rights, and inequality. The transition experience …

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Monopoly, 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 study the effects of inequality on the size (and structure) of redistributive programs in both perfectly … case and that in the latter case an increase in inequality can be associated with a fall in the tax rate. We find also that …

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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - CESifo - 2011

the international comparison in degrees of revealed inequality aversion, but differences in social preferences are …

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