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-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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The cross-country correlation between social trust and income equality is well documented, but few studies examine the direction of causality. We show theoretically that by facilitating cooperation, trust may increase efficiency and lead to more equal outcomes, while the feedback from inequality...
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Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific … rich, support for redistribution in Germany is not motivated by the urge to castigate this group for their affluence …
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a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual attitudes toward others are endogenously determined …. Attitudes toward others influence the desired extent of redistribution. There are multiple politico-economic equilibria. In one … majority vote for high redistribution. In the other equilibrium, highly skilled workers work above the mean and are admired by …
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and the social contract in a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual self-esteem and relative es …-teem for others are endogenously determined. Individuals differ in their productivities. The desired extent of redistribution … in which sentiments, labor supply and redistribution are simultaneously determined. The model has two types of equilibria …
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This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...
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This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there...
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Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific … rich, support for redistribution in Germany is not motivated by the urge to castigate this group for their affluence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292524
This paper explores how individual preferences for income redistribution are influenced by social capital, which is … examine how social capital accumulated in residential areas influences an individual’s preference for income redistribution … income redistribution in areas with higher rates of community participation. This tendency is more clearly observed in high …
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This paper explores how social capital influences individual preferences for income redistribution. Social capital is … more likely to express preferences for income redistribution in areas with higher rates of community participation. This is … redistribution are influenced by psychological externalities. Because the data is from surveys, I also consider the role of …
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