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Income Redistribution Going Awry : The Reversal Power of the Concern for Relative Deprivation

Sorger, Gerhard - 2013

We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively not only on work time (effort) but also on low...

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Income redistribution going awry : the reversal power of the concern for relative deprivation

Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 86 (2013), pp. 1-9

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Income redistribution going awry : the reversal power of the concern for relative deprivation

Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded - 2012

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Income redistribution going awry : the reversal power of the concern for relative deprivation

Stark, Oded; Sorger, Gerhard - 2012

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Can a concern for status reconcile diverse social welfare programs?

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2016

Let there be two individuals: "rich," and "poor." Due to inefficiency of the income redistribution policy, if a social …

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Consensus income distribution

Stark, Oded; Falniowski, Fryderyk; Jakubek, Marcin - 2016

In determining the optimal redistribution of a given population's income, we ask which factor is more important: the … convex combination of (absolute) income and low relative income. Assuming that the redistribution comes at a cost (because …

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