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Preferences for Redistribution
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009
This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical …
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Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2011
redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756257
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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions : What Can We Learn from Experiments?
Tausch, Franziska - 2010
Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on … evidence on preferences for redistribution and suggest some links to redistribution through pensions. For that purpose we …
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Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes
Sliwka, Dirk - 2007
An explanation for motivation crowding-out phenomena is developed in a social preferences framework. Besides selfish and fair or altruistic types a third type of agents is introduced: These quot;conformistsquot; have social preferences if they believe that sufficiently many of the others do too....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778314
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Using Cognitive Dissonance to Manipulate Social Preferences
Oxoby, Robert J. - 2014
We explore the role of cognitive dissonance in dictator and public goods games. Specifically, we motivate cognitive dissonance between one's perception of “fair treatment” and self-interested behaviour by having participants answer a question about fairness. Utilizing two manipulations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050631
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Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity
Aaberge, Rolf - 2010
In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle. Our framework allows for both an ex-ante and an ex-post approach to EOp. Our ex-post approach relies on a permanent income measure defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148340
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A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022
The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a measure of social stress and aggregate income. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084076
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Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems : Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil
Robalino, David A. - 2011
We develop a model of job search and use it to assess the effects that the Brazilian unemployment benefit system has on exit rates from unemployment. In our setup, unemployed workers receive job offers from the formal and informal sectors and decide whether to accept them or wait. Only jobs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130452
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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency : An Experimental Study
Großer, Jens - 2011
' policy choices by transferring money to them. We observe very high levels of redistribution – even when transfers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134222
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Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-Being
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2010
of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136943