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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. …

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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...

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Charitable giving, social capital and positional concerns

Antinyan, Armenak; Baghdasaryan, Vardan; Grigoryan, … - 2021

Research on the effects of positional concerns on individuals' attitudes and behavior in certain policy-relevant areas is lacking. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between positional concerns, charitable giving and social capital. We use data from the 'Caucasus Barometer' survey...

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Moral Norms in a Partly Compliant Society

Kranz, Sebastian - 2006

This paper analyses competition of moral norms and institutions in a society where a fixed share of people unconditionally complies with norms and the remaining people act selfishly. Whether a person is a norm-complier or selfish is private knowledge. A model of voting-by-feet shows that those...

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Economic Growth in the Potterian Economy

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - In: The Law and Harry Potter, (pp. 211-236). 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...

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Social Norms and Welfare State Dynamics

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2002

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 benefits than otherwise. We...

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Post Mortem Reputation, Compensatory Gifts and Equal Bequests

Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - 1999

The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and financial property) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is...

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Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals? The Impact of Relative Income Position on Social Capital

Torgler, Benno; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2006

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We...

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Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals? The Impact of Relative Income Position on Social Capital

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Torgler, Benno - 2006

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …

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