The fair-minded rich and healthy? (Youth) unemployment, inequality and fairness concerns in preferences for redistribution

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Do rising inequality and youth unemployment aect preferences for redistribution? Using country-level European survey data from 2002 to 2015, I show that changes in market inequality and the rise of (youth) unemployment increase preferences for redistribution. The ndings are supported by the respondents' fairness concerns. Estimated effects exhibit substantial heterogeneity. There is systematic variation among fairness concerns with respect to income and health, which are triggered by market income inequality and (youth) unemployment. The preferences of the relatively rich and healthy are more responsive to the level of inequality and youth unemployment. At very high youth unemployment rates, even the rich might be in favor of redistribution. Results suggest that "income-and health-dependent fairness concerns" exist.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WWZ Working Paper ; No. 2020/02

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Relation of Economics to Social Values ; Household Behavior: General ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
• Thema: Preferences for redistribution ; Inequality ; Fairness concerns ; Income-dependent altruism ; Health-dependent-altruism ; Youth unemployment ; unemployment ; Meltzer-Richards ; Inequality ; Market inequality

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Armbruster, Stephanie
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ)
• (wo): Basel
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.5451/unibas-ep76044
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/240411
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ