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Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
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Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874411
redistribution in 34 European countries over the period 2002-2012. The data is drawn from the six available waves of the European … redistribution over time. Though this result is predicted by standard political economy models, it has found little previous … redistribution. The empirical results hold after performing a variety of robustness checks regarding the construction of pseudo …
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investigating the causal link between income shocks and preferences for redistribution. While Study 1 exogenously manipulates within …
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Are differences in preferences for redistribution between right and left wing voters amplified because of … to convergence in preferences for redistribution and charitable giving between right and left wing voters. The effect …
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Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality? This paper argues that there is widespread acceptance that multiple, interrelated and mutually reinforcing inequalities exist - in income, wealth, education, health, power,...
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less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …
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inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … not the actual level – correlates strongly with demand for redistribution and reported conflict between rich and poor. We …
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. The main research question raised in the paper is whether our perception of income differentiation is driven by experience …
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influence individual perception of this phenomenon? To answer these questions we must first clarify how scholars define and … measure inequality of opportunity. We discuss the possible mechanisms linking objective measures to subjective perception of … Social Survey Programme (2009). We suggest that the prevailing perception of the degree of unequal opportunity in a large …
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