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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - 2014 - Preprint

Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of future mobility and the belief that society offers equal opportunities. We add to previous research by investigating the role of individual and social norms on rent seeking. We find...

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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William - 2012

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...

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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William - 2016

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Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany - Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects

Büchel, Felix; Frick, Joachim R. - 2003

Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of each country as the reference category, we find that, as a...

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Immigration vs. Poverty : Causal Impact on Demand for Redistribution in a Survey Experiment

Martinangeli, Andrea FM - 2020

immigration and poverty. We ﬁnd that information about immigration has a negative impact on demanded redistributive taxation among … provision side, middle income respondents increase desired public expenditure in response to both immigration and poverty, while … low income respondents reduce desired public expenditure in response to immigration. These heterogeneities are …

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Punching up or punching down? : how stereotyping the rich and the poor impacts redistributive preferences in Germany

Diermeier, Matthias; Fischer, Madeleine L.; Niehues, Judith - 2023

Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as 'deserving' or 'undeserving'. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and...

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Comparing redistributive efficiency of tax-benefit systems in Europe

Mantovani, Daniela - 2018

In empirical analysis, the Kakwani index is the most frequently used indicator for comparing progressivity across countries and over time. The Kakwani is often assumed to measure to what extent a policy design is targeted to the poor. It has, however, a major drawback: it is not defined for net...

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The tragedy (or virtue?) of in-kind redistribution : how the poor pays for the rich's status concerns

Schumacher, Jan - 2008

The model describes a two person economy, in which one individual with positive exogenous income is altruist towards an individual with no income. The rich individual cares for her own social status. She evaluates her status by comparing disposable net cash incomes. When deciding on the size and...

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Redistribution and Beliefs about the Source of Income Inequality

Valero, Vanessa - 2020

Previous literature demonstrates that beliefs about the determinants of income inequality play a major role in individual support for income redistribution. This study investigates how people form beliefs regarding the extent to which work versus luck determines income inequality. Specifically,...

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Should income inequality be praised? : multiple public goods provision, income distribution and social welfare

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...

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