Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/266440 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
WiSo-HH Working Paper Series No. 70
Publisher: 
Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, WiSo-Forschungslabor, Hamburg
Abstract: 
We examine the relationship between perceived income positions and attitudes towards inequality at a supranational-level. Conducting a survey in four EU Member States (Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden), we confirm that their citizens misperceive their own income position in the EU. Once we account for these misperceptions, we find that those with a lower income rank assess EU income differences as more unjust and are more supportive of an EU minimum wage. When we inform a randomized subsample about their actual income position in the EU, those who learn to be richer than they initially thought assess EU income differences as less unjust. Respondents in Italy, Poland, and to a lesser extent Sweden drive these results whereas income misperceptions of German respondents have opposing effects.
Subjects: 
Income
Misperceptions
Inequality
EU Minimum Wage
European Union
Survey Experiment
JEL: 
D31
D63
F55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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