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Redistribution of wintering American Common Eiders ( Somateria mollisima dresseri )
Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2023 The American Common Eider ( Somateria mollisima dresseri ) winters along the eastern coasts of the northern U.S. and southern Canada. Various lines of evidence indicate recent localized changes in eider abundance, particularly in the Gulf of Maine, where
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Immigration and Redistribution [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other
Elsner, Benjamin, Concannon, Jeff
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Inefficient redistribution and inefficient redistributive politics [PDF]
Public Choice, 2009 This paper examines the effect of inefficient redistribution in Myerson’s (American Political Science Review 87:856–869, 1993) model of redistributive politics. Regardless of the absolute levels of the efficiency of political parties’ transfers to different voter segments, parties have incentive to (stochastically) shift resources away from voter ...
Kovenock, Dan, Roberson, Brian
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Redistribution and the Multiplier [PDF]
IMF Economic Review, 2011 Does it matter, for the size of the government spending multiplier, which category of agents bears the brunt of the necessary adjustment in taxes? In an economy with heterogeneous agents and imperfect financial markets, the answer depends on whether or not New Keynesian features, such are price rigidity, are present.
Monacelli, Tommaso, Perotti, Roberto
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Identity and Redistribution [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 This paper models the interaction between individuals’ identity choices and redistribution. Both redistributive policies and identity choices are endogenous, and there might be multiple equilibria. The model is applied to ethnicity and social class. In an equilibrium with high taxes, the poor identify as poor and favor high taxes.
Lindqvist, Erik, Östling, Robert
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Microorganisms, 2020 Members of the bacterial genus Thalassotalea have been isolated recently from various marine environments, including marine invertebrates. A metagenomic study of the Deepwater Horizon oil plume has identified genes involved in aromatic hydrocarbon ...
Minji Kim +4 more
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Diversity and redistribution [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2008 Abstract In this paper we analyze the interaction of income and preference heterogeneity in a political economy framework. We ask whether the presence of preference heterogeneity (arising, for example, from different ethnic groups or geographic locations) affects the ability of the poor to extract resources from the rich.
Raquel Fernández, Gilat Levy
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Deceptive redistribution [PDF]
Review of Economic Dynamics, 2016 Many policies enhance welfare under certain conditions, but have the potential to generate private rents at other times. This can prompt rent-seeking governments to adopt such policies excessively. If the economy's constituents can easily detect opportunistic policymaking, rent-seeking is constrained by the prospect of loosing political reputation and ...
Guillermo L. Ordoñez, Simeon D. Alder
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Redistribution and the alleviation of income inequalities: the case of the European Union
Ekonomia i Prawo, 2020 Motivation: The income inequalities are considered an important economic and social problem, because increasing income inequalities may make it difficult to achieve such policy goals as: social cohesion and inclusive development.
Małgorzata Szczepaniak
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Preferences for Redistribution [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects previously studied separately in the literature. We then examine empirical evidence for the US, using the General Social Survey, and for a large set of countries, using the ...
Alesina, Alberto, Giuliano, Paola
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