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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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 430

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
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
Thema
Inequality aversion
redistribution
life satisfaction
panel data
Einkommensverteilung
Soziale Werte
Einkommensumverteilung
Lebensqualität
Schätzung
Deutschland
Lebenszufriedenheit

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schwarze, Johannes
Härpfer, Marco
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2002

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Schwarze, Johannes
  • Härpfer, Marco
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2002

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