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Inequality persistence and policymaking constraints : explaining regional data patterns

Vlaicu, Razvan - 2024

and political trust both lead to fiscal policy preferences that constrain effective redistribution. Electoral …

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? : the Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009 - Rev. version

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...

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Should Income Inequality Be Praised? Multiple Public Goods Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare

Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2017

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...

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Does Competition Justify Inequality?

Bartling, Björn - 2016

Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can have severe economic consequences, as they may cause counterproductive behavior such as rule book slowdowns or quality shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with...

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Decreasing incomes increase selfishness

Gagnon, Nickolas; Saulle, Riccardo D.; Zaunbrecher, … - 2021

We use a controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases within a time period on redistribution decisions at the end of that period, in an environment where we keep fixed the sum of incomes over the period. First, we investigate the effect of a negative income...

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Fairness in Winner-Take-All Markets

Bartling, Björn - 2018

The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in winner-take-all situations as fair, independent of...

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Trust and racial income inequality : evidence from the U.S.

Tesei, Andrea - 2015

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial …

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Inequality, perception biases and trust

Knell, Markus; Stix, Helmut - 2017

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Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence

Falk, Armin - 2017

This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We exogenously vary relative status in the realm of sexual...

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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution : evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010 - Revised version

In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...

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