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| Title: | | Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : A revised version  |
| Authors: | | Schwarze, Johannes Härpfer, Marco |
| Issue Date: | | 2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 974 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | inequality aversion redistribution life satisfaction panel data |
| JEL: | | I31 D63 D31 C23 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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