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abstract: 'The inequality of labor earnings among working-age individuals has gone
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up in all western countries during the past 25 years, either through
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rising wage inequality (US, UK) or through rising unemployment
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(Continental Europe). Policy regimes did matter a great deal, however,
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as far as the inequality of disposable income is concerned. In a country
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like France, transfers to the unemployed were sufficiently massive to
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prevent income inequality from rising. This paper argues that the way
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fiscal redistribution has managed to counteract skill-biased technical
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change in countries like France is somewhat paradoxical. The same
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distributive stability could have been obtained at a lower cost by
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following a job subsidies strategy rather than an income maintenance
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strategy, simply because it is always less costly to have people at work
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producing something. We explore several potential explanations for this
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paradox. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights
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reserved. JEL classification: E24; H21; I38.'
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affiliation: 'Piketty, T (Corresponding Author), CEPREMAP, 142 Rue Chevaleret, F-75013
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Paris, France.
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CEPREMAP, F-75013 Paris, France.'
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author: Piketty, T
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author_list:
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- family: Piketty
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given: T
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1016/S0014-2921(98)00098-1
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files: []
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issn: 0014-2921
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journal: EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
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keywords: unemployment; income inequality; job subsidies
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keywords-plus: EMPLOYMENT
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language: English
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month: APR
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note: '13th Annual Congress of the European-Economic-Association, BERLIN,
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GERMANY, SEP 02-05, 1998'
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number: 4-6
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number-of-cited-references: '12'
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pages: 839-851
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papis_id: ab100ec725367ce046ece5da614873fb
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ref: Piketty1999canfiscal
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researcherid-numbers: MOTREB, ayoub EL/AAB-1710-2019
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times-cited: '4'
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title: Can fiscal redistribution undo skill-biased technical change? Evidence from
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the French experience
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type: Article; Proceedings Paper
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unique-id: WOS:000080311700012
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usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
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usage-count-since-2013: '4'
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volume: '43'
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web-of-science-categories: Economics
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year: '1999'
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