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Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution: the POUM Hypothesis

Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they, or their children, may move up the income ladder. This ‘Prospect of Upward Mobility’ (POUM) hypothesis is commonly advanced to explain why democracies do not engage in large-scale...

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Heterogenous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

Primiceri, Giorgio E; van Rens, Thijs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of …-cycle changes, transitory and permanent shocks and estimate the contribution of each to total inequality. Our model fits the joint … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, A B; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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On Income Inequality and Democracy: Theories and Findings in Search of a Viable Data Base.

Castles, F.G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

This paper seeks to evaluate the findings of cross-national research on the relationship between income inequality and …

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Inflation and Inequality

Albanesi, Stefania - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Cross-country evidence on inflation and inequality suggests that they are positively correlated. I explore the …

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Business Cycle Fluctuations and the Distribution of Consumption

De Giorgi, Giacomo; Gambetti, Luca - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

reduce consumption inequality on impact. …

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Measuring Income Risk

Burgess, Simon; Gardiner, Karin; Jenkins, Stephen P; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income risk of demographic and labour market factors....

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Spain is Different: Falling Trends of Inequality

Pijoan-Mas, Josep; Sánchez-Marcos, Virginia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In this article we characterize the evolution of inequality in hourly wages, hours of work, labor earnings, household … Presupuestos Familiares and the European Household Community Panel. Our analysis shows that inequality in individual net labor … in the unemployment rate have been key ingredients to understand this falling trend. However, the inequality reduction …

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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

International surveys reveal wide differences between the views held in different countries concerning the causes of wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies and experiments by psychologists demonstrate...

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Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …

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