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What if Robin Hood is a social conservative? : how the political response to increasing inequality depends on party polarization
Finseraas, Henning - In: Socio-economic review 8 (2010) 2, pp. 283-306
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979230
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What If Robin Hood is a Social Conservative? How the Political Response to Increasing Inequality Depends on Party Polarization
Finseraas, Henning - 2010
This paper examines how political competition on a non-economic dimension affects redistribution. More specifically … polarized countries. The empirical analysis using redistribution data from the Luxembourg Income Study demonstrates that the … positive effect of increases in market inequality on redistribution is lower when party polarization on the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146241
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Voting for redistribution under desert-sensitive altruism
Luttens, Roland Iwan; Valfort, Marie-Anne - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 114 (2012) 3, pp. 881-907
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009714117
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Leaky bucket in the real world: estimating inequality aversion using survey data
Pirttilä, Jukka; Uusitalo, Roope - 2007
Existing evidence of inequality aversion relies on data from class-room experiments where subjects face hypothetical questions. This paper estimates the magnitude of inequality aversion using representative survey data, with questions related to the real-economy situations the respondents face....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264153
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Redistributive preferences, redistribution, and inequality: Evidence from a panel of OECD countries
Kuhn, Andreas - 2012
inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316895
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Redistributive preferences, redistribution, and inequality: Evidence from a panel of OECD countries
Kuhn, Andreas - 2012
inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287698
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Reconstructing income inequality in Italy : new evidence and tax policy implications from distributional national accounts
Guzzardi, Demetrio; Palagi, Elisa; Roventini, Andrea; … - 2022
This work reconstructs novel series on income distribution in Italy combining survey data, tax data and National Accounts both at the national and regional levels, and it analyzes the overall progressivity of the tax system. Our new Distributional National Accounts allow to correct for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013161526
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The Shadowing Role of Redistributive Institutions in the Relationship between Income Inequality and Redistribution
Aysan, Ahmet Faruk - 2009
redistribution. While theoretical papers show that income inequality increases redistribution, empirical studies fail to confirm the … the relationship between income inequality and redistribution. This paper also introduces three specifications to … pressure for redistribution, it also increases the incentive to reduce the efficiency of redistribution in order to constrain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156737
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Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Low and Middle Income Countries
Lustig, Nora - 2017
Current policy discussion focuses primarily on the power of fiscal policy to reduce inequality. Yet, comparable fiscal incidence analysis for 28 low and middle income countries reveals that, although fiscal systems are always equalizing, that is not always true for poverty. In Ethiopia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958796