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Political Preferences for Redistribution in Sweden
Bastani, Spencer - 2017
We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971–2012 using the inverse optimal tax …
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The Subversive Nature of Inequality : Subjective Inequality Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Inequality
Kuhn, Andreas - 2016
This paper shows that higher levels of perceived wage inequality are associated with a weaker (stronger) belief into meritocratic (non-meritocratic) principles as being important in determining individual wages. This finding is robust to the use of an instrumental-variable estimation strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984497
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A Matter of Perspective : How Experience Shapes Preferences for Redistribution
Cassar, Lea - 2017
for redistribution beyond self-interest. Subjects generated a high or a low income either through a lottery or through an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962917
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Should Income Inequality Be Praised? Multiple Public Goods Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2017
voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965708
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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Earnings Inequality in Norway, 1967-2000
Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2021
In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316148
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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
van Praag, B.M.S - 2021
It is argued that the concept of well–being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing process into account. The reference effect depends on how frequently individuals compare with others and on the degree of social transparency in society. In this paper we employ the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316230
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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912680
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Finance and Income Inequality : A Review and New Evidence
de Haan, Jakob - 2016
Using a panel fixed effects model for a sample of 121 countries covering 1975‐2005, we examine how financial development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work, our results suggest that all finance variables increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980576
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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2015
the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market … processes and the income distribution after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of … ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124890
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Leaky Bucket in the Real World: Estimating Inequality Aversion Using Survey Data
Pirttilä, Jukka; Uusitalo, Roope - CESifo - 2007
Existing evidence of inequality aversion relies on data from class-room experiments where subjects face hypothetical questions. This paper estimates the magnitude of inequality aversion using representative survey data, with questions related to the real-economy situations the respondents face....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094321