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Information, Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution
Feri, Francesco - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2008
support high level of redistribution because they hope to be rich in the future). We consider a setting where individuals … gender. We find that the POUM effect could increase or decrease the support for redistribution depending on the parameters of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005432663
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Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution: the POUM Hypothesis
Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they, or their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662178
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Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Angelo, Emanuela - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
relative to one's parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro-public sector attitudes and voting … favourable attitudes to redistribution and the public sector, greater upward mobility is associated with more Left-wing attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722843
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Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and;Political Preferences: Evidence from the;BHPS
Clark, Andrew; D'ANGELO, EMANUELA - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2010
and upward mobility relative to own parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro … social status is associated with less favourable attitudes to redistribution and the public sector, greater upward mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008475746
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A Note on the POUM Effect with Heterogeneous Social Mobility
Feri, Francesco - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali, … - 2011
We study the determinants of the (steady-state) POUM effect in a model where the individuals evaluate their expected future income using both their current income and observable characteristics such as education, race or gender.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540153
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Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity
Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2000
Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738446
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A note on the POUM effect with heterogeneous social mobility
Feri, Francesco - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 2, pp. 258-262
We study the determinants of the (steady-state) POUM effect in a model where the individuals evaluate their expected future income using both their current income and observable characteristics such as education, race or gender.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010572255
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Income mobility and economic inequality from a regional perspective
Rodríguez, Juan Prieto; Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel; … - In: Journal of Applied Economics XIII (2010) November, pp. 335-350
A necessary condition for mobility to reduce the popular desire for redistribution is a significant positive … correlation between inequality and mobility. In Prieto et al. (2008), a significant positive relationship was found at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835374
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Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity
Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2000
Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150120
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Inclusive Growth; Measurement and Determinants
Anand, Rahul; Mishra, Saurabh; Peiris, Shanaka J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
dynamic measure permits us to focus on inequality as well as distinguish between countries where per capita income growth was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242387