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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state … redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …
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Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution : Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Cruces, Guillermo - 2011
agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125167
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Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income : Insights from the UK and Germany
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2011
comparison income effect. In East Germany the reference income effects are insignificant for all. With data from the British …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119018
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Tastes, Castes, and Culture : The Influence of Society on Preferences
Fehr, Ernst - 2011
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
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Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes
Akay, Alpaslan - 2018
the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on human welfare. We combine panel datasets for Australia, Germany … analyses point to the mediating effect of risk perception: individuals who exhibit stronger emotional responses to terror …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915718
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Marry Your Like : Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2014
Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In...
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A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2014
This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...
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Earnings Inequality in India : Has the Rise of Caste and Religion-Based Politics in India Had an Impact?
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2014
Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant intercaste and inter-religion differences in earnings have the potential to stall the process of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752332
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Identity, Perceptions and Institutions : Caste Differences in Earnings from Self-Employment in India
Goel, Deepti - 2016
Using data from two rounds of the Employment-Unemployment Survey of the National Sample Survey for 2004-5 and 2009-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste identity in India, and perceptions of self-worth as measured by the amounts that individuals consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983022
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Equality of Opportunity and Redistribution in Europe
Dunnzlaff, Lina - 2010
The concept of equality of opportunity (EOp) goes back to Roemer (1993, 1998) who argues that a society shall guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that access into actual advantage by the application of...
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