Preferences over equality in the presence of costly income sorting
Preferences over equality in the presence of costly income sorting
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在成本高昂的收入分类下偏好平等
DOI:
10.1257/mic.20130031
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发表时间:
2015
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通讯作者:
R. Razin
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作者:
Gilat Levy;R. Razin
We analyze preferences over redistribution in societies with costly (positive) sorting according to income. We identify a new motivation for redistribution, where individuals support taxation in order to reduce the incentives to sort. We characterize a simple condition over income distributions which implies that even relatively rich voters—with income above the mean—will prefer full equality (and thus no sorting) to societies with costly sorting. We show that the condition is satisfied for relatively equal income distributions. We also relate the condition to several statistical properties which are satisfied by a large family of distribution functions.
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-937x.2008.00517.x
发表时间:
2005-12
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Macroeconomics eJournal
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作者:
Heidrun C. Hoppe-Wewetzer;B. Moldovanu;A. Sela
通讯作者:
Heidrun C. Hoppe-Wewetzer;B. Moldovanu;A. Sela