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CO2 emissions are disproportionately caused by more affluent consumers. In the political debate, this fact has triggered the demand for income redistribution and wealth taxes not only to reduce ... a footprint of less than 10 tons. In the political debate, these asymmetric emissions trigger the demand for income redistribution and wealth taxes to reduce emissions by decreasing inequality. The
After two decades of labour market reforms at the margin, the great recession created political scope to reduce the employment protection still benefitting the workers on open-ended contracts. To ... countries (Eichhorst et al. 2017) , and in particular where pressure to reduce the public debt created the political capital to proceed to unprecedented reduction of employment protection legislation
country like Indonesia, with the political philosophy of Pancasila that emphasizes social justice to all Indonesian citizens (Gibson 2017:11) . The paper is structured as follows. Section 2 discusses ... Classification D 0 1 0 Kiel Centre for Globalization, Kiel Institute for the World Economy , Kiel , Germany 1 Department of Socioeconomics, Institute for International Political Economy, Vienna University of
Squire (1998) for imperfect capital model, Alesina and Rodrik (1994) and Persson and Tabellini (1994) for political economy models of redistribution, Alesina and Perotti (1996) and Rodrik (1999 ... ) for socio-political conflict model, and Keefer and Knack (2002) and Easterly, Ritzen, and Woolcock (2006 ) for models of democratisation). For the effects of economic inequality on democratic
. See also Hendren (2014) . The contribution of our paper is to examine the evolution of political preferences for redistribution in Sweden during 1971–2012, providing a detailed description of the ... Jacobs et al. (2017) analyze the political preferences for redistribution of Dutch political parties. Hendren (2014) develops a general approach to compare income distributions recognizing the cost to
modeling complex systems. His PhD in applied mathematics combined with his extensive work in social and political philosophy makes Molander a particularly well-equipped scholar to study inequality as a ... review here. The author sees inequality as a natural outcome emerging out of social, economic and political processes. In a given context it has its own specific evolution which can be, and often is
, we focus on the ‘economic’ rather than on the ‘political’ or ‘social’ dimension of globalization (Gygli et al. 2019; Keohane and Nye 2000) . Research generally underlines that the concept of ... According to prominent findings in the political-science literature, policies ‘diffuse’ across borders due to learning, competition, and emulation processes (e.g., Simmons et al. 2006) . Hence, the
debatable in the literature. The literature survey suggests that four main theories, namely, credit-market imperfection, political economy, socio-political unrest, and savings rate, are being used to debate ... the effect of income inequality on economic growth (Barro 2000; Perotti 1996) . Among these theories, the political economy and social unrest theories suggest that income inequality harms economic
well as a financial contribution from the Italian Ministry of University and Research PRIN 2017K8ANN4 "New approaches to political economy: from methods to data" is gratefully acknowledged. Usual ... unexpected crises poses a challenge to political institutions, and people might mistrust institutions if they feel that crises of this type are mismanaged. In this regard, Daniele et al. (2020) show the
, not a disease”).7 Noticeably missing from discussions about domestic violence are social theories that focus on the macro political conditions and economic circumstances that contribute to crime ... assumption that gender-based violence is unrelated to the political economy discourages efforts to pursue law-related structural reforms and thus hinders the development of legal responses to issues of
especially salient in the case of the U.S., where many citizens and some political leaders resisted the stricter policies found elsewhere, such as lockdowns, and relied more on essentially voluntary compliance ... ) . distancing, given the externalities involved.11 Politics is also in play. For the U.S., Allcott et al. (2020 ) find that local political affiliations—whether Democratic or Republican—have influenced local
in parenthesis are robust standard errors clustered at the Primary Sampling Unit level Notes: (1) AET (2005) stands for Altonji, Elder and Taber (2005, Journal of Political Economy) Biprobit ... ( 348 ), 985 - 1015 ( 2020a ). London School of Economics and Political Science Emran , M.S. , Jiang , H. , Shilpi , F. : Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility: Theory and evidence from
standard framework on the political economy of redistribution and extend it in two ways. First, we introduce a more general two-sided inequality aversion. Second, we incorporate perceptions of income ... ) (MR) political economy framework by building on the work of Galasso (2003) . To the best of our knowledge, Galasso (2003) is the first to introduce altruistic preferences in an MR model by assuming
, influenced by similar political philosophy principles. Nevertheless there are also sufficient differences to call for examination of the factors that have resulted in different levels of inequality. We examine ... , historically and with respect to labour market and Welfare State policies which were influenced by similar political philosophy principles. Nonetheless, the income distributions in the two countries differ quite
and quality of children . Journal of political Economy 84 ( 4 , Part 2), 143 - 162 ( 1976 ) Becker , G.S. , Tomes , N.: Human capital and the rise and fall of families . Journal of labor economics 4(3 ... , Part 2) , 1 - 39 ( 1986 ) Becker , G.S. , Tomes , N.: An equilibrium theory of the distribution of income and intergenerational mobility . Journal of political Economy 87 ( 6 ), 1153 - 1189 ( 1979
( 2014 ) Rosenlee , L.H.L. : Confucianism and Women - a Philosophical Interpretation (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) . State University of New York Press, Albany, New York ( 2006 ) Vu , T.M
Van de gaer (2016), Roemer and Trannoy (2015 , 2016) and Ferreira and Peragine (2016) . The economic literature builds on earlier work in political philosophy: see Rawls (1971) , Dworkin (1981 a ... political thought (Mack and Gaus 2004) . 6The literature commonly refers to market income as pre-tax income (e.g., Bossert 1995 and Bossert and Fleurbaey 1996) . The few empirical studies that apply
better than this person feared, perhaps, and to a large extent because of, Martin’s unwavering support, both intellectual and political. Despite not being a formal member of the team, Martin acted as a ... -quality scientific results. On many occasions, Martin defended the rights of researchers to publish their work despite the intense political pressures. His unquestionable professional integrity and
) . There is a substantial amount of academic and political literature, showing that we face a period of new polarization: A significant increase in income and capital revenues at the top of the social ... based income allocation over time. Hence, the inequalities produced by a market system may in the end lead to a political abolition of the same market economy. However, as soon as a reasonable income is
political level, that focusing purely on income provides a limited picture of social progress. We illustrate how ex-ante policy evaluation can be performed in terms of richer concepts of individual well-being ... . Until now most applications have considered the effect of potential reforms on the income distribution only. Yet it has become increasingly recognized, both at the academic and political level, that such