The "prospect of upward mobility" (POUM) hypothesis formalised by Benabou and Ok (2001a) finds explicit assumptions … provided the mobility process is concave in expectations, redistribution policies are expected to last for a sufficiently long … period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment …

The “prospect of upward mobility” (POUM) hypothesis formalised by Benabou and Ok (2001a) finds explicit assumptions … provided the mobility process is concave in expectations, redistribution policies are expected to last for a sufficiently long … period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment …

, uncertainty, rising income and wealth inequalities, decreasing mobility) and demand for redistribution. Our context is Hungary … welfare. According to the POUM hypothesis, we also found a negative correlation between expected intergenerational mobility … and individual support for redistribution. People perceive their relative income position, their relative mobility and …

individuals' payoffs are interdependent to those where payoffs are independent. In a laboratory experiment, we study whether the … resulting inequality is perceived differently and how this affects redistribution. Across treatments, we compare a spectator …'s redistribution of two workers' earnings. If workers do not compete in a zero-sum setting, average redistribution decreases. In a …

We use a highly-controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases on redistribution …-personal decreases create dissatisfaction for an individual, that person may support redistribution policies that compensate him or her … experience decreasing wages. While many studies examine the effect of income inequality on redistribution decisions, this is the …

Using an experiment with material incentives, this paper investigates the violation of composite dominance … dominance. Moreover, we test tail independence. The experiment consists of two treatments, a self-concern mode (in which each …