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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 …

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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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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...

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Trust, welfare states and income equality : what causes what?

Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2013

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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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its …

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Punching up or punching down? : how stereotyping the rich and the poor impacts redistributive preferences in Germany

Diermeier, Matthias; Fischer, Madeleine L.; Niehues, Judith - 2023

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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Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto; Murard, Elie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of … immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of …

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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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On the collective choice among models of social protection : an experimental study

Farina, Francesco; Ottone, Stefania; Ponzano, Ferruccio - In: Games 10 (2019) 4/41, pp. 1-17

A real-effort experiment is conducted in order to detect preferences for one out of three different models of the Welfare State characterized by different tax-and-transfer schemes. We reproduce a small society in the lab where: Subjects are grouped in three stylized classes (the rich, the middle...

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The state and income inequality in Brazil

Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...

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