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Spend It Like Beckham? Inequality and Redistribution in the UK, 1983-2004 [PDF]

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A main activity of the state is to redistribute resources. Models of the political process generally predict that a rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly exogenous rise
Andreas Georgiadis, Alan Manning
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Functional saturation of Earth's habitable domains: constraints on land systems and potential in marine environments. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Syst Biol
Petrescu-Mag IV   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution  [PDF]

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This paper investigates the effect of linguistic diversity on redistribution in a broad cross-section of countries. We use the notion of "linguistic distances" and show that the commonly used fractionalization index, which ignores linguistic distances ...
Klaus Desmet   +2 more
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Impact of Land Reform on Productivity, Land Value and Human Capital Investment: Household Level Evidence from West Bengal [PDF]

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While land reform has been the subject of considerable scholarly debate, most of the analyses have been at the aggregate level and focused on rather short-term effects.
Jin, Songqing   +2 more
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Redistribution and insurance in the German welfare state [PDF]

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Welfare states redistribute both between individuals (inter-individual redistribution) reducing annual, cross-sectional inequality and over the lifecycle of an individual (intra-individual redistribution) insuring individuals against income risks in the ...
Bartels, Charlotte
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Fairness and Redistribution: US versus Europe [PDF]

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Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If
George-Marios Angeletos, Alberto Alesina
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