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Income Inequality, Redistribution and Poverty

Income Inequality, Redistribution and Poverty

wider.unu.edu –

The present paper argues that the median voter hypothesis implies that relative redistribution should increase in line with inequality. An empirical test based on 110 observations from the Luxembourg Income Study fails to find any support for the hypothesis. By contrast, voters’ actual preferences offer a better guide to understanding redistributive outcomes. The findings challenge the narrow concept of human motivation that underpins rational choice, and point to the importance of fairness more...

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Sonia Hossain on July 16, 2012

The Regional Distribution of Public Employment

The Regional Distribution of Public Employment

recent.unimore.it –

The authors analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-efficiency trade-off. The optimal pattern exhibits higher levels of public employment in low productivity regions and is more pronounced the higher is the degree of regional inequality within the country. Empirically, using a more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 23, 2012

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