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Lifting the veil of ignorance : survey experiments on preferences for wealth redistribution
Stumpf, Elisa; Übelmesser, Silke - 2024
We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large … position in it. Second, we investigate how preferences for wealth redistribution are affected by an information experiment. One … redistribution, we find no significant average treatment effect for either treatment in the full sample, although those who …
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Testing Marx
Bartels, Charlotte; Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023
We study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration, and voting up to 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian regions, we re-evaluate the famous Revisionism Debate between orthodox Marxists and their critics. We show that changes in capital accumulation led...
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Justice profiles in Europe : major differences in evaluation of inequality
Moya, Cristóbal; Adriaans, Jule - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 9/10, pp. 67-73
, who perceive injustice in all dimensions and support redistribution, or altruists, who assess their own situation as just …
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Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020 : The Rise of Pluto-Communism?
Piketty, Thomas; Yang, Li - 2021
This paper combines national accounts, household surveys, fiscal data, wealth rankings and election polls, in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of income and wealth inequality in Hong Kong, as well as its impact on political cleavages over the 1981-2020 period. We find a...
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Income and Wealth Distribution : Overlooked Basics
Stern, Monte - 2016
This article reviews the distribution of income and wealth in the US from three basic perspectives that tend to be otherwise overlooked if the subject is framed primarily on the basis of the gross statistics: a) quantity and quality of work effort; b) quantity and quality of capital...
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Communication matters : sensitivity in fairness evaluations across wealth inequality expressions and levels
Oppel, Annalena - 2023
This paper seeks to understand whether the way in which inequality is communicated through measurements influences individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality, such as the Gini coefficient, fall short of...
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How should capital be taxed? : theory and evidence from Sweden
Bastani, Spencer; Waldenström, Daniel - 2018
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of capital taxation in advanced economies with a focus on the Swedish experience. We synthesize the existing theoretical literature, present facts about the capital stock and its distribution, review current capital tax practices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825361
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How should capital be taxed? : theory and evidence from Sweden
Bastani, Spencer; Waldenström, Daniel - 2018
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of capital taxation in advanced economies with a focus on the Swedish experience. We synthesize the existing theoretical literature, present facts about the capital stock and its distribution, review current capital tax practices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845732
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Chapter 4 Historical perspectives on income distribution: The case of Europe
Morrisson, Christian - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 217-260). 2000
The evolution of income distribution over two centuries is an attractive topic because it allows one to test the inverse U-curve hypothesis using long series instead of cross-section data. In Section 1 the distribution trends in countries where global data are available, is considered, that is...
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Piketty's Doom Scenario of Inequality in the Twenty-First Century
Ten Kate, Adriaan - 2015
poorly defined and susceptible to wide margins of interpretation. In my opinion, there is no need to be so pessimistic. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018370