Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75582 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 321
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The traditional criticism notwithstanding, we show that social mobility can, in principle, explain political income redistributions. Nonetheless, the social-mobility argument for redistribution is not satisfactory, as actual transition probabilities are not consistent with order-preserving redistributions.
Subjects: 
Political economy
social mobility
income redistribution
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Appears in Collections:

Files in This Item:
File
Size





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.