Redistributive choices and increasing income inequality: experimental evidence for income as a signal of deservingness
| Autor: | Marco Migueis, Laura K. Gee, Sahar Parsa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Inequality
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Redistribution (cultural anthropology) Experimental economics Economic inequality Luck 0502 economics and business Economics Demographic economics 050207 economics Redistribution of income and wealth 050205 econometrics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Experimental Economics. 20:894-923 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6938 1386-4157 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10683-017-9516-5 |
| Popis: | We explore the relation between redistribution choices, source of income, and pre-redistribution inequality. Previous studies find that when income is earned through work there is less support for redistribution than when income is determined by luck. Using a lab experiment, we vary both the income-generating process (luck vs. performance) and the level of inequality (low vs. high). We find that an increase in inequality has less impact on redistribution choices when income is earned through performance than when income results from luck. This result is likely explained by individuals using income differences as a heuristic to infer relative deservingness. If people believe income inequality increases as a result of performance rather than luck, then they are likely to believe the poor deserve to stay poor and the rich deserve to stay rich. |
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