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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - 2014 - Preprint
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/10010381041
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Income inequality and social preferences for redistribution and compensation differentials
Kerr, William R. - 2013
-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148202
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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - 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/10015243239
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Civic capital and support for the welfare state
Cerqueti, Roy; Sabatini, Fabio; Ventura, Marco - 2017
We model how the interplay between tax surveillance institutions and civic capital shapes taxpayers’ support for welfare state. We show that, when tax surveillance is tight, rational civic-minded individuals express greater support for welfare spending than uncivic ones. We provide empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785076
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William R. - 2012
-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112981
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William R. - 2016
-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006909
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The Effect of Social Norms Estimation on Non-Strategic Giving : Controlling for the Role of Numeric Anchoring and Extra Monetary Prospects
Senci, Maximiliano - 2017
Making participants estimate the prescriptive norm increases generosity in a Dictator Game (DG). Authors have interpreted this result in terms of Norm Focus Theory (Cialdini et al., 1990). Nonetheless, non-normative explanations have not been discarded yet. We replicated the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951929
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Economic growth in the Potterian economy
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel C. - 2010
We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434312
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Voting for redistribution under desert-sensitive altruism
LUTTENS, R. I.; VALFORT, M.A. - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2008
We endow individuals that differ in skill levels and tastes for working with altruistic preferences for redistribution … the lazy, we show that lower levels of redistribution emerge in political equilibrium. We provide empirical evidence …, based on the ISSP 1992 dataset, that preferences for redistribution are not purely selfish and that desert- sensitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009392891
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Social norms and welfare state dynamics
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörg - 2003
The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous bene.ts than otherwise. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507856