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Fehr, Dietmar; Rau, Hannes; Trautmann, Stefan T.; Xu, Yilong - 2018

Abstract: We study the impact of unjust inequality on social trust and trustworthiness, and its separate effect on the …-off person, then we observe no negative effects on trust and trustworthiness in the aggregate. Moreover, our data do not support …; groups of unsuccessful persons are least efficient and least generous in the trust game. …

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Your Place in the World : The Demand for National and Global Redistribution

Fehr, Dietmar - 2020

Some of today's most heated policy debates about Brexit, trade wars, climate change abatement, and migration involve redistribution of resources within a given country (national redistribution) and between countries (global redistribution). Nevertheless, theories and evidence on preferences for...

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Your place in the world relative income and global inequality

Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021

There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of...

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Your Place in the World - Relative Income and Global Inequality

Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021

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Status Aspirations, Wealth Inequality, and Economic Growth

Stark, Oded - 2005

This paper argues that an increase in the inequality of wealth prompts a stronger quest for status that in turn fosters the accumulation of wealth. It proposes a measure for an individual's want of social status. For a given level of a population?s wealth, the corresponding aggregate measure of...

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Inequality and migration: A behavioral link

Stark, Oded - 2005

We provide an analytical-behavioral explanation for the observed positive relationship between income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, and the incentive to migrate. We show that a higher total relative deprivation of a population leads to a stronger incentive to engage in...

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Status aspirations, wealth inequality, and economic growth

Stark, Oded - 2005

This paper argues that an increase in the inequality of wealth prompts a stronger quest for status that in turn fosters the accumulation of wealth. It proposes a measure for an individual's want of social status. For a given level of a population's wealth, the corresponding aggregate measure of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293749

Integration, social distress, and policy formation

Stark, Oded - 2012

I study the integration of regions in the form of a merger of populations, which I interpret as a revision of people's social space and their comparison set; I illustrate the way in which a merger can aggravate social distress; and I consider policy responses. Specifically, I view the merger of...

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Consensus income distribution

Stark, Oded; Falniowski, Fryderyk; Jakubek, Marcin - 2016

In determining the optimal redistribution of a given population's income, we ask which factor is more important: the social planner's aversion to inequality, embedded in an isoelastic social welfare function indexed by a parameter alpha, or the individuals' concern at having a low relative...

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On the precarious link between the Gini coefficient and the incentive to migrate

Stark, Oded; Byra, Łukasz; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2020

We offer an explanation for the inconclusive results of empirical studies into the relationship between the magnitude of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of migration. Bearing in mind the substantial literature that identifies relative deprivation as an...

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