Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55522 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeiträge No. 2012/2
Publisher: 
Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Berlin
Abstract: 
Gender, income, education and self-employment are robust predictors for individual support for redistribution in the OECD. In addition, considerations of social status, the fairness of the allocation mechanism, perceived moral worth of the poor and individual autonomy are important. The results for the OECD are compared to those for a large sample of non-OECD countries which also include less developed economies. Neither gender, nor self-employment, nor fairness considerations exhibit a robust association with preferences for redistribution. However, education, income, individual autonomy and moral worth of the poor remain important determinants. On average, preferences for redistribution indicate that within the OECD, there is no desire to change redistributive policies. In contrast, in the sample of non-OECD countries, on average there is a desire to redistribute less.
Subjects: 
preferences for redistribution
social rivalry effect
social identity
survey data
World Values Survey
JEL: 
D0
H3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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