Redistribution as a Local Public Good Subject to Congestion
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...We find that redistribution tends to be less in small cities, which is in contrast with the idea that proximity might be positively correlated with the willingness to redistribute and some empirical evidence on this (Ashworth et al., 2002)....
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..., Chernick (2005) finds that party control by Republicans is correlated with less progressivity, whereas there tends to be an offsetting effect towards pre-tax income inequality, meaning that policies are more progressive where inequality is greater....
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...The empirical work by Ashworth et al. (2002) has a more specific focus on redistribution as a local public good (Pauly, 1973) and the related experimental literature on the role of the level of knowledge of beneficiaries (Orbell et al., 1988), communication (Ledyard, 1997), and identification (Bohnet and Frey, 1999) in determining individual willingness to transfer resources to other people. The idea is that more redistribution might be expected where distances, broadly speaking, are shorter. Ashworth et al. (2002) find evidence that individual willingness to redistribute is negatively correlated with the geographical size of the municipality, affecting both the number of recipients and the size of the benefit....
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...The empirical work by Ashworth et al. (2002) has a more specific focus on redistribution as a local public good (Pauly, 1973) and the related experimental literature on the role of the level of knowledge of beneficiaries (Orbell et al....
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...We find that redistribution tends to be less in small cities, which is in contrast with the idea that proximity might be positively correlated with the willingness to redistribute and some empirical evidence on this (Ashworth et al., 2002). On the other hand, our extension of the analysis to the redistribution from tax-payers to users seems to confirm some interesting predictions of the model proposed by Orr (1976). In particular, we find that the two variables that are specific to the public good nature of redistribution - the proportion of people receiving the benefit within the population and the absolute number of recipients - are statistically significant with the expected sign....
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...Therefore, these type of taxes could be the appropriate remedy for the problems analyzed in Brecher and Choudhri (1990) and Wildasin (1994)....
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...This coincides with the results obtained in Wildasin (1994) (in fact, this is a particular case of Wildasin's model) and with the results of Brecher and Choudhri (1990) for a small country....
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...1, primer semestre de 2008 49 In a more theoretical framework, Wildasin (1994) shows how income redistribution policies by a host country distort migration decisions, and may make all inhabitants of the host country worse off when freeing migration....
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...Given that we focus our discussion on the problems in using the DixitNonnan compensatory mechauíism, we present a simple model (based on Wildasin, 1994) in which, as trivial efficiency gains from freeing migration will appear, the only issue is the redistribution of the efficiency gains from…...
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...The basic intuition of the negative results in Brecher and Choudhri (1990) and Wildasin (1994) is that subsidies can attract more migrants than is eñicient....
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...As surveyed in Borjas (2002), important US policy measures regarding immigration have been inspired by the concems that migrants can hecome public charges, as well as to avoid the US pubUc welfare to become an immigration magnet (consider, for instance, the 1891 US Congress legislation conceming entry of persons likely to become public charges, or even the 1994 Proposition 187 in Cahfomia)....
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...Introduction As surveyed in Borjas (2002), important US policy measures regarding immigration have been inspired by the concems that migrants can hecome public charges, as well as to avoid the US pubUc welfare to become an immigration magnet (consider, for instance, the 1891 US Congress legislation…...
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...(See Myers and Papageorgiou, 2000; Razin and Sadka, 1995; WeUisch and Wildasin, 1996; Welhsch andWalz 1998; and also Wildasin, 1998; for related topics.)...
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