Community membership aspirations: the link between inequality and redistribution revisited

Alain Desdoigts () and Fabien Moizeau

Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) from HAL

Abstract: This article studies how distributional tensions can act in many different ways depending on the social affinity between the different economic classes and their prospect of upward or downward mobility.We consider that socioeconomic group membership through its implied social interactions and peer effects is an important determinant of an individual's outcome. Agents, while voting on a social contract, take into account the consequences of their choice over their ex post belonging to a particular community. Thus, the endogenous sorting of the population into clusters may lead to a nonmonotonic relationship between inequality and the pressure for redistributive policies.

Keywords: wealth; income redistribution; distribution; equality; social inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-08
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Published in International Economic Review, 2005, 46 (3), pp.973-1007. ⟨10.1111/j.1468-2354.2005.00354.x⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP ASPIRATIONS: THE LINK BETWEEN INEQUALITY AND REDISTRIBUTION REVISITED (2005)
Working Paper: Community membership aspirations: the link between inequality and redistribution revisited (2005)
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:hal:cesptp:halshs-00007817

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2005.00354.x

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().