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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - Econometica - 2014
Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are sig- nificantly correlated with expectations of … significantly and positively affects preferences for redistribution. On the other hand, living in an area where most citizens do not … stigmatize rent seeking, makes men more favourable to redistribution, which may be seen as a social equalizer in an unfair …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933357
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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2014
Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of … significantly and positively affects preferences for redistribution. On the other hand, living in an area where most citizens do not … stigmatize rent seeking, makes men more favourable to redistribution, which may be seen as a social equalizer in an unfair …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957812
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Fair Tax Evasion
Barth, Erling; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Ognedal, Tone - 2013
In this paper we analyse how fairness considerations, in particular considerations of just income distribution, affect whether or not people find tax evasion justifiable and their willingness to evade taxes. Using data from the Norwegian “Hidden Labour Market Survey” we show that individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158201
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Workers' Tax Evasion in Italy
Fiorio, Carlo V; D'Amuri, Francesco - In: Giornale degli Economisti 64 (2005) 2-3, pp. 247-270
evaluation of the redistribution and incidence effects of tax evasion among workers is provided. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772699
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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of … significantly and positively affects preferences for redistribution. On the other hand, living in an area where most citizens do not … stigmatize rent seeking, makes men more favourable to redistribution, which may be seen as a social equalizer in an unfair …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108639
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What kind of Welfare State do you prefer? An experiment on framing the social insurance scheme
Farina, Francesco; Ottone, Stefania; Ponzano, Ferrucio - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2015
A real-effort experiment is conducted in order to detect preferences for one of three different models of Welfare State characterized by different schemes of tax-and-transfers. Experimental subjects have to choose (both under and without veil of ignorance concerning their position in the society...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011193622
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Are more equal societies happier? : subjective well-being, income inequality, and redistribution
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2013
Using four waves of the European Social Survey, we analyze the association of income inequality and redistribution with … the process, the extent of redistribution, what lead to that state. These impacts are different in Eastern and Western … Europe. Inequality aversion and the positive effect of redistribution seem to be stronger also for less affluent members of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764556
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Reduction of income inequality and subjective well-being in Europe
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2014
association of reduction of income inequality (redistribution) with subjective wellbeing. Their results provide evidence that … not only the outcome (inequality), but also the procedure (redistribution) that leads to the outcome influences subjective … positive effect of redistribution seems to be stronger for less affluent members of the societies and left-wing oriented …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357364
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436192
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Taxation and inequality in developing countries : lessons from the recent experience of Latin America
Martorano, Bruno - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016
This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries, focusing on the recent experience of Latin America. Although the tax system was regressive in the 1990s, tax changes promoted equality in the first decade of the 2000s. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532297