The emerging aversion to inequality - Evidence from subjective data

Irena Grosfeld and Claudia Senik ()

No 1006, CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) from CEPREMAP

Abstract: This paper provides evidence of the changing attitudes to inequality during transition to the market in Poland. Using repeated cross-sections of the population, it identifies a structural break in the relationship between income inequality and satisfaction. Whereas in the first stage of the transition process, an increase in income inequality was interpreted by the population as a positive signal of wider opportunities, later in the transition period increased inequality became a factor in dissatisfaction with the country’s economic situation. This was accompanied by increasing public sentiment that the process of income distribution is flawed and corrupt.

Keywords: Inequality; Subjective Well-being; Growth; Breakpoint; Transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 D31 D63 I30 P20 P26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2010
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