In sum, Millon sees changing the default rule from at-will to just cause as a redistributive strategy, not as a means of getting more employees covered by just cause employment rules.
The impact of these biased perceptions on attitudes toward redistributive policies is studied by means of an experimental design that was incorporated into the survey, which provided consistent information on the own-ranking within the income distribution to a randomly selected group of respondents.
The fact that marginal tax rates rose so differently for various groups means not only that redistributive public policy depressed the labor market but has also sharply, and arbitrarily, altered the composition of the work force in the direction of people who are married and more skilled.
Of course, all taxes are redistributive, in that they redistribute private resources for public purposes.
The more workers recognize that their wages are not keeping up with their productivity gains, the more they are likely to press for redistributive government action through tax policy or by other means.
More research is needed to quantify work incentives in various countries, but I suspect that Western European nations have been pursuing exactly such redistributive austerity and will continue to do so, which means that they can expect austerity to depress their economies.
We have to reject the easy option of marketisation and instead find the means to democratise public services and build an accountable, redistributive state.
As the pension system becomes more redistributive the majority of the population, those with wages below the mean wage, will delay their optimal legal retirement ages.
Once the means of finance are taken into account, they are also less redistributive than you might expect.Economic theory has a lot to say about efficient systems of taxation.
This means that a decrease in this population growth rate would lead to a more redistributive scheme.
