Attitudes to income inequality and redistribution

Martin Brun () and Xavier Ramos ()
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Martin Brun: Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research (FIT), Tampere University (TUNI), and Economics of Inequality and Poverty Analysis (EQUALITAS)
Xavier Ramos: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Economics of Inequality and Poverty Analysis (EQUALITAS), and IZA -Institute of Labor EconomicsAuthor-Name:

No 33, Working Papers from Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research

Abstract: We survey the literature on attitudes towards inequality and redistributive preferences. We focus on the effects of misperceptions, social preferences, and social identity. Recent contributions addressing these relationships have produced novel findings that are hardly covered in previous surveys. Before reviewing the empirical literature, we discuss how the theoretical literature has embedded in canonical models of social preferences the three issues we focus on in this review.

Keywords: attitudes to inequality; preferences for redistribution; misperceptions; fairness concerns; inequality aversion; social identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 D90 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38
Date: 2025-08
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