We use survey and experimental data to explore how effort choices and preferences for redis-tribution are linked. Under … standard preferences, redistribution would reduce effort. This is different with social preferences. Using data from the World … in effort, but that the reverse does not hold true. Using a lab experiment, we show that redistribution choices even …

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift …-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets …. The individual's rank in the income distribution is a stronger determinant of effort than others' average income …