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Demand for redistribution, support for the welfare state, and party identification in Austria
Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals … inequality which they perceive to exist. The empirical analysis also shows that the demand for redistribution is strongly … associated not only with variables describing self-interested motives for redistribution, but also with perceptions of and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343922
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Unequal Incomes, Ideology and Gridlock : How Rising Inequality Increases Political Polarization
Voorheis, John - 2015
Income inequality and political polarization have both increased dramatically in the United States over the last several decades. A small but growing literature has suggested that these two phenomena may be related and mutually reinforcing: income inequality leads to political polarization, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017142
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In the eye of the beholder : subjective inequality measures and the demand for redistribution
Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
occupational wage inequality and their demand for redistribution. Most importantly, the framework explicitly allows for the … perceptions of how wages are determined in reality all simultaneously influence the demand for redistribution. Finally, I show … that subjective inequality measures and the demand for redistribution are substantially significant predictors of both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343925
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Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria
Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals … inequality which they perceive to exist. The empirical analysis also shows that the demand for redistribution is strongly … associated not only with variables describing self-interested motives for redistribution, but also with perceptions of and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155545
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Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria
Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals … inequality which they perceive to exist. The empirical analysis also shows that the demand for redistribution is strongly … associated not only with variables describing self-interested motives for redistribution, but also with perceptions of and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156182
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Demand for redistribution, support for the welfare state, and party identification in Austria
Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals … inequality which they perceive to exist. The empirical analysis also shows that the demand for redistribution is strongly … associated not only with variables describing self-interested motives for redistribution, but also with perceptions of and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900890
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Parental leave benefits and child penalties
Waights, Sevrin - 2022 - This version: August 2022
I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount available to high-earning women after their first childbirth on subsequent within-couple earnings inequality. Lower benefit amounts result in a reduced earnings gap that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013345907
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Post-reform trends in wage inequality : the case of urban Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2002
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields' (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001694909
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Post-Reform Trends in Wage Inequality : The Case of Urban Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2014
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields' (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014108859
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Post-reform trends in wage inequality : the case of urban Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2002
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields' (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475841