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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112981
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006909
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568762
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Should Income Inequality Be Praised? Multiple Public Goods Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965708