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on how risk exposure and income are related to preferences for redistribution. To test our hypotheses, we extract … preferences and the institutional incentives of governments to respond to these preferences. This paper attempts to do both, using … turn our attention to the supply side of government redistribution. Institutions, we argue, mediate governments' reactions …
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determinants of individual preferences over redistribution whereas b) structural change and exposure to international competition …This paper explores the determinants of individual level support for income redistribution by the government. It argues … that there are two sources of preference formation when it comes to redistribution. People are either in favor of income …
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Conflicts of interest over the generosity and structure of redistribution and social insurance (jointly: social policy … redistribution increases in the income skew - and that between the safely employed and the unemployed or precariously employed - in … indicates a system of endogenous relations between economic performance (unemployment/income-distribution), social policy …
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and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes - though such a link does not exist when objective measures of … inequality and social mobility are used. These observations highlight that political preferences and choices might depend more on …
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and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes - though such a link does not exist when objective measures of … inequality and social mobility are used. These observations highlight that political preferences and choices might depend more on …
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to choose political platforms that are better aligned with the preferences of rich voters. In US election survey data …
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result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not …
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result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006909
and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes – though such a link does not exist when objective measures of … inequality and social mobility are used. These observations highlight that political preferences and choices might depend more on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051387
Although voter turnout in the 2013 general election to the German Bundestag differed considerably across income brackets, the income distribution of voters did not differ, in a statistically significant way, from that of the entire population. The non-uniform turnout, thus, is unlikely to affect...
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