Disincentives from redistribution : evidence on a dividend of democracy

Rupert Sausgruber, Axel Sonntag, Jean-Robert Tyran

We experimentally study the disincentive effect of taxing work and redistributing tax revenues when redistribution is imposed vs. democratically chosen in a vote. We find a “dividend of democracy” in the sense that the disincentive effect is substantially smaller when redistribution is chosen in a vote than when it is imposed. Redistribution seems to be more legitimate, and hence less demotivating, when accepted in a vote

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Year of publication:	2019
Authors:	Sausgruber, Rupert ; Sonntag, Axel ; Tyran, Jean-Robert
Publisher:	Wien : Universität Wien
Subject:	Redistribution \| disincentive effect \| voting \| legitimacy \| real-effort task \| lab experiment \| Experiment \| Umverteilung \| Demokratie \| Democracy \| Dividende \| Dividend \| Wahlverhalten \| Voting behaviour \| Legitimität \| Legitimacy

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 52 Seiten)
Series:	WU international taxation research paper series : research papers. - Wien : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2798190-3. - Vol. no. 2019, 05
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.3475358 [DOI]
Classification:	C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior ; D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; H23 - Externalities; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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