Income redistribution going awryThe reversal power of the concern for relative deprivation
Income redistribution going awry
The reversal power of the concern for relative deprivation
dc.contributor.author | Sorger, Gerhard | |
dc.contributor.author | Stark, Oded | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-20T13:14:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-09-20T13:14:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 12.2012 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/12229 | |
dc.description.abstract | We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals’ preferences depend negatively not only on work time (effort) but also on low relative income. It is rigorously shown that the set of preference profiles that gives rise to this perverse effect of a transfer on inequality is a non-empty open subset of all preference profiles. A robust example illustrates this result. | de |
dc.format.extent | 21 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; 173 | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | rank-preserving inequality-narrowing transfer | |
dc.subject | Gini coefficient | |
dc.subject | Low relative income | |
dc.subject | Relative deprivation | |
dc.subject | Exacerbated inequality | |
dc.subject.ddc | 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie | |
dc.subject.ddc | 320 Politik | |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 Wirtschaft | |
dc.title | Income redistribution going awry | |
dc.title.alternative | The reversal power of the concern for relative deprivation | |
dc.type | Arbeitspapier | |
dc.publisher.name | Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn | |
dc.publisher.location | Bonn | |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | |
dc.relation.eissn | 1436-9931 | |
dc.relation.url | https://www.zef.de/fileadmin/user_upload/zef_dp_173.pdf | |
ulbbn.pubtype | Zweitveröffentlichung | |
dc.version | publishedVersion |