Arbeitspapier
Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However, inequality reduction by the state does not increase well-being. On the contrary, inequality reduction places something of an excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from 1985 to 1998.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 430
General Welfare; Well-Being
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
redistribution
life satisfaction
panel data
Einkommensverteilung
Soziale Werte
Einkommensumverteilung
Lebensqualität
Schätzung
Deutschland
Lebenszufriedenheit
Härpfer, Marco
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Schwarze, Johannes
- Härpfer, Marco
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2002