GINI DP 17: Income Inequality, Value Systems and Macroeconomic Performance

Giacomo Corneo

GINI Discussion Papers from AIAS, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies

Abstract: This paper offers a comprehensive econometric investigation of the impact of income inequality on the values endorsed by people. Using survey data from thirty-three OECD countries over a period of twenty-eight years, the following dimensions of value systems are investigated: work ethic, civism, obedience, honesty, altruism, and tolerance. In most cases, no robust effects from inequality on values are detected. However, there is some weak evidence that a more equal income distribution might reduce the work ethic of the population and increase its tolerance. JEL-Classifi cation: D63, O15, O57, Z1

Date: 2011-09
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www1.feb.uva.nl/aias/DP17-Corneo.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 500 Can't connect to www1.feb.uva.nl:443 (No such host is known. )

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aia:ginidp:17

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in GINI Discussion Papers from AIAS, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ Amsterdam. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiemer Salverda ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).