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| Title: | | Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany  |
| Authors: | | Kuhn, Andreas |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5573 |
| Abstract: | | This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are much smaller than differences with respect to inequality perceptions or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the same inequality perceptions and distributional norms. |
| Subjects: | | subjective inequality indices redistributive preferences political preferences |
| JEL: | | D31 D63 H50 J31 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201104133956 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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