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| Title: | | Distribution of wealth and interdependent preferences  |
| Authors: | | Grodner, Andrew Kniesner, Thomas J. |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 3684 |
| Abstract: | | We examine the socially optimal wealth distribution in a two-person two-good model with heterogeneous workers and asymmetric social interactions where only one (social) individual derives positive or negative utility from the leisure of the other (non-social) individual. We show that the interdependence can effectively counter-act the need to transfer wealth to low-wage individuals and may require them to be poorer by all objective measures. We demonstrate that in the presence of social interactions it can be socially desirable to keep substantial wealth inequality. |
| Subjects: | | Wealth inequality earnings inequality social welfare social interactions |
| JEL: | | D31 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008100821 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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