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Growth, inequality and labor markets in LDCs : a survey : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on dissecting globalization, July 2004
Qimḥî, Ayyāl - 2004
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality increases with growth. The paper argues that the methodologies used in many of the empirical applications, designed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450868
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How high can you climb? : earnings inequality and intragenerational earnings mobility in a developing country : evidence from Thai tax returns
Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 2023
This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013484931
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Endogenous timing and income inequality in the voluntary provision of public goods : theory and experiment
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue; Kurosaka, Kengo - 2018
This paper investigates how the heterogenous incomes and preferences of potential donors affect the timing of contribution decisions when it is endogenously determined by contributors themselves. More specifically, we use a simple setting with two donors, Cobb-Douglas preferences, and complete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955669
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Self-serving dictators and economic growth
Haile, Daniel; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Verbon, Harrie - 2003
A new line of theoretical and empirical literature emphasizes the pivotal role of fair institutions for growth. We … dramatic drop in cooperation (and growth), when inequality is increased by a selfserving dictator. No such effect is observed … adverse growth effect of the interaction between the degree and the genesis of inequality. We conclude that economies giving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404315
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Inequality and growth : the dual role of human capital in development
Eicher, Theo S. - 2000
To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781636
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Social position and fairness views
Hvidberg, Kristoffer B.; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; … - 2021
We link survey data containing Danish people’s perceptions of where they rank in various reference groups and fairness views with administrative records on their income history, life events, and reference groups. People know their income positions well, but believe others are closer to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485329
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A matter of perspective : how experience shapes preferences for redistribution
Cassar, Lea; Klein, Arnd Heinrich - 2017
We investigate in a laboratory experiment if the experience of economic failure or success shapes people's preferences for redistribution beyond self-interest. Subjects generated a high or a low income either through a lottery or through an effort-based tournament. A sub-set of subjects could...
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Lifting the veil of ignorance : survey experiments on preferences for wealth redistribution
Stumpf, Elisa; Übelmesser, Silke - 2024
We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large-scale online survey in Germany. First, we analyze how well participants are informed about the German wealth distribution and their position in it. Second, we investigate how...
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Misperceiving economic success : experimental evidence on meritocratic beliefs and inequality acceptance
Fehr, Dietmar; Vollmann, Martin - 2022
Meritocratic beliefs are often invoked as justification of inequality. We provide evidence on how meritocratic beliefs are shaped by economic status and how they contribute to the moral justification of inequality. In a large-scale survey experiment in the US, we show that success causes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013384890
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(In-)equality of opportunity, fairness, and distributional preferences
Fehr, Dietmar; Müller, Daniel; Preuß, Marcel - 2022
This paper examines how perceived importance of family background affect distributional pref-erences using two large-scale survey experiments. In the first experiment, we randomly inform respondents about the relationship between parental income and economic success later in life, which renders...
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