Risk Aversion and Social Mobility : The Impossibility of Order-Pre-Serving Income Redistributions

The traditional criticism notwithstanding, we show that social mobility can, in principle, explain political income redistributions. Nonetheless, the social-mobility argument for redistribution is not satisfactory, as actual transition probabilities are not consistent with order-preserving redistributions

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Year of publication:	[2021]
Authors:	Danziger, Leif ; Ursprung, Heinrich W.
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Theorie \| Theory \| Soziale Mobilität \| Social mobility \| Umverteilung \| Redistribution \| Risikoaversion \| Risk aversion \| Einkommensverteilung \| Income distribution

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (12 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 2000 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.263352 [DOI]
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty ; H20 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue. General
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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