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Aspirations of the middle class: Voting on redistribution and status concerns

Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2011

. Redistribution to real co-players has a negative effect on the median voter's tax rate choice. Further, perceived income mobility … decreases the desired amount of redistribution. Our results suggest the importance of concerns about own mobility as well as …

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Social mobility and redistributive taxation

Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2010

We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social mobility affect the choices of redistributional taxes. In the absence of social mobility, voters choose tax rates that are very well in line with the prediction derived in the...

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Investments in the human capital of the socially disadvantaged children: Effects on redistribution

Lohse, Tim; Lutz, Peter F.; Thomann, Christian - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2011

Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a great deal of attention. Programs of such early intervention, aiming at children's health and well-being, are spreading considerably in the U.S. and are currently tested in...

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Risks at work: the demand and supply sides of government redistribution

Cusack, Thomas R.; Iversen, Torben; Rehm, Philipp - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2005

on how risk exposure and income are related to preferences for redistribution. To test our hypotheses, we extract … turn our attention to the supply side of government redistribution. Institutions, we argue, mediate governments’ reactions …

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Diverse disparities: The politics and economics of wage, market and disposable income inequalities

Beramendi, Pablo; Cusack, Thomas R. - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2004

redistribution. …

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Citizen support for the Welfare State: Determinants of preferences for income redistribution

Rehm, Philipp - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2005

This paper explores the determinants of individual level support for income redistribution by the government. It argues … that there are two sources of preference formation when it comes to redistribution. People are either in favor of income … redistribution because they are disadvantaged, or they favor redistribution as a means to insure against income shocks. The paper …

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Good jobs, bad jobs and redistribution

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Sandvik, Bjørn; Straume, Odd Rune - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2002

We analyse the question of optimal taxation in a dual economy, when the government is concerned about the distribution of labour income. Income inequality is caused by the presence of sunk capital investments, which creates a .good jobs. sector due to the capture of quasi-rents by trade unions....

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