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Immigration to the Land of Redistribution

Boeri, Tito - 2009

migrants more likely to draw on welfare in the countries with the most generous welfare state. Moreover, redistribution does …

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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2021

The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the effects of revenue neutral flat rate tax reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of...

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Is There a Tradeoff between Ethnic Diversity and Redistribution? The Case of Income Assistance in Canada

Riddell, W. Craig - 2019

impacts on public opinion are important enough to influence policy is unclear. Many scholars argue that Canada is an exception … dramatic growth in the ethnic and cultural diversity of Canada's immigrant inflows in recent decades, but the extent of this … case the estimated effects are small. Our study thus supports the view that Canada's experience stands as an example in …

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How Tight are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data

Bargain, Olivier - 2007

The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both benefit entitlement...

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The Equality Multiplier : How Wage Setting and Welfare Spending Make Similar Countries Diverge

Barth, Erling - 2012

The complementarity between wage setting and welfare spending can explain how almost equally rich countries differ in economic and social equality among their citizens. More wage equality increases the welfare generosity via political competition in elections. A more generous welfare state fuels...

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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State : The Case of Benefit Morale

Halla, Martin - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality : A Dynamic Panel Approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM...

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