Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77554 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 84
Publisher: 
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Zurich
Abstract: 
This paper describes individuals' inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in a panel of OECD countries, primarily focusing on the association between these subjective measures and the effective level of inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is positively (negatively) correlated with redistributive preferences. There is also evidence showing that the subjective and objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes, however, once more fundamental country characteristics are taken into account. This suggests that these characteristics explain both redistributive preferences as well as the effective level of redistribution and after tax-and-transfer inequality.
Subjects: 
inequality perceptions
distributional norms
redistributive preferences
inequality
redistribution
political preferences
JEL: 
D31
D63
J31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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