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Experience of social mobility and support for redistribution : accepting or blaming the system?

Weber, Nina - 2023

support for redistribution. In line with the self-serving bias, those with negative mobility experiences 'blame the system …' and extrapolate from their experience onto society, which increases their demand for redistribution. Conversely, those who … support for redistribution. This suggests a potential demand-side explanation for the Great Gatsby Curve: As overall absolute …

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Prospective Mobility, Fairness, and the Demand for Redistribution

Fong, Christina M. - 2006

People who believe that their society has few impediments to upward mobility tend to oppose governmental redistribution … oppose redistribution on self-interested gounds? Or is it because they believe that the less well off have not made the …

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Don't stop believin' : heterogeneous updating of intergenerational mobility perceptions across income groups

Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023

This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on … observed unresponsiveness of demand for redistribution may result because the group which drives the effect on beliefs does not … increase demand for redistribution and may even decrease it. Indeed, despite the strong perception shift in the high …

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Don't stop believin' - heterogeneous updating of intergenerational mobility perceptions across income groups

Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023

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Does a wealth tax improve equality of opportunity?

Berg, Kristoffer; Hebous, Shafik - 2021

Does parental wealth inequality impact next generation labor income inequality? And does a tax on parental wealth affect the labor income distribution of the next generation? We tackle both questions empirically using detailed intergenerational data from Norway, focusing on effects on wages...

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Fairness and support for redistribution : the role of preferences and beliefs

Harrs, Sören; Sterba, Maj-Britt - 2025

This paper establishes three novel findings on fairness and redistribution by combining theory-driven experimental …

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Mobility, taxation and welfare

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2011

Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare analysis of mobility often fails, however, to account for the cost of the variability of periodic incomes around permanent incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of...

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Technological change, task complexity, and preferences for redistribution

Hope, David; Limberg, Julian; Weber, Nina - 2023

perceptions and preferences for redistribution differ when top earners gain their incomes through luck, routine work, or complex …

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Experience of social mobility and support for redistribution: Accepting or blaming the system?

Weber, Nina - 2023

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Are the upwardly-mobile more Left-wing?

Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria - 2023

It is well-known that the wealthier are more likely to have Right-leaning political preferences. We here in addition consider the role of the individual's starting position, and in particular their upward social mobility relative to their parents. In 18 waves of UK panel data, both own and...

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