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Beyond equal rights: Equality of opportunity in political participation

Hufe, Paul; Peichl, Andreas - 2016

It is well understood that political participation is stratified by socio-economic characteristics. Yet it is an open question how this finding bears on the normative evaluation of the democratic process. In this paper we argue that the equality of opportunity (EOp) concept furnishes an...

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You can't be happier than your wife: happiness gaps and divorce

Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...

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You can't be happier than your wife: happiness gaps and divorce

Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

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Social norms and market behavior: Evidence from a large population sample

Riehm, Tobias; Fugger, Nicolas; Gillen, Philippe; … - 2021

We test the importance of social norms for market interactions associated with negative real-world externalities in a large-scale experiment with a heterogeneous population sample from Germany. The majority of experimental participants refuses to trade, thus behaving in a moral way. Our data...

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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature

Stichnoth, Holger; van der Straeten, Karine - 2009

We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...

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Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? Evidence from Germany

Stichnoth, Holger - 2010

Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...

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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature

Stichnoth, Holger; van der Straeten, Karine - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098315

Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? Evidence from Germany

Stichnoth, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615601

The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

Due to behavioral effects triggered by redistributional interventions, it is still an open question whether government policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country-level data sources to study inequality trends in...

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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants

Corneo, Giacomo G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … redistribution, both the welfare-magnet effect from more redistributive countries and the propensity of the high-skilled to settle in … redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country …

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