Do more unequal countries redistribute more? does the median voter hypothesis hold? (English)

The median voter hypothesis is important to endogenous growth theories because it provides the political mechanisms through which voters in more unequal countries re-distribute a greater proportion of income and thus (it is argued), by blunting incentives, reduce the country's growth rate. But he hypothesis was never properly tested because of lack of data on the distribution of (pre-tax and transfer) factor income across households, and hence on...

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Milanovic,Branko L.;
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1999/12/31
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS2264
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1
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1
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2010/07/01
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Do more unequal countries redistribute more? does the median voter hypothesis hold?
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factor income

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Milanovic,Branko L..

Do more unequal countries redistribute more? does the median voter hypothesis hold? (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 2264 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/588701468766536598

Do more unequal countries redistribute more? does the median voter hypothesis hold? (English)

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