Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36183 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4449
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals' estimates of occupational wages from the International Social Survey Program. Although these estimates differ widely across individuals, the data clearly show that most individuals would like to decrease wage inequality, relative to the level of inequality which they perceive to exist. The empirical analysis also shows that the demand for redistribution is strongly associated not only with variables describing self-interested motives for redistribution, but also with perceptions of and social norms with respect to inequality. Further, the demand for redistribution is a strong predictor for whether an individual is supportive of redistribution by the state. On the other hand, however, I find almost no evidence for an empirical association between the demand for redistribution and individuals' party identification.
Subjects: 
Subjective inequality measures
demand for redistribution
support for the welfare state
party identification
JEL: 
D31
D63
H50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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