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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18103| Title: | Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? : Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction |
| Keywords: | D31 C23 I31 D63 ddc:330 Inequality aversion redistribution life satisfaction panel data Einkommensverteilung Soziale Werte Einkommensumverteilung Lebensqualität Schätzung Deutschland Lebenszufriedenheit |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin |
| Description: | We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find only weak evidence that Germans are inequality averse. Inequality reduction by the state does not increase wellbeing. On the contrary, inequality reduction imposes an excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from 1985 to 1998. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18103 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18103 ppn:383006724 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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