inequality increases, this bias may eventually overtake the egoistic demand for greater taxation and equilibrium redistribution … data on inequality, redistribution, work values and attitudes toward work and toward the poor for a set of OECD countries. … and the social contract in a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual self-esteem and relative es …

a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual attitudes toward others are endogenously determined …. Attitudes toward others influence the desired extent of redistribution. There are multiple politico-economic equilibria. In one … majority vote for high redistribution. In the other equilibrium, highly skilled workers work above the mean and are admired by …

Although economic inequality has long been viewed as a cause of civil conflict, existing research has not found robust … empirical support for this relationship. This study explores the connections between inequality and civil conflict by focusing … data set with country- and group-level measures of inequality within and across ethnic groups. We then show that consistent …

and the size of government. The main results are that inequality is negatively related to the size of government and to …