Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany

Andreas Kuhn ()
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Andreas Kuhn: University of Zurich, Department of Economics

No 2011-15, NRN working papers from The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Abstract: This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are much smaller than differences with respect to inequality perceptions or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the same inequality perceptions and distributional norms.

Keywords: subjective inequality indices; redistributive preferences; political preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 H50 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2011-03
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