Chutes & Ladders: Understanding the Interplay between Preferences for Redistribution and Intergenerational Mobility

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christa Marr ◽  
Chih Ming Tan
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Preferences For Redistribution

scholarly journals Mindern bessere Aufstiegschancen den Wunsch nach mehr Umverteilung?

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Essbaumer
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
American Economic Review ◽  
Preferences For Redistribution ◽  
Politische Unterstützung

ZusammenfassungZu starke Ungleichheit gefährdet den Zusammenhalt in der Gesellschaft. Die Politik soll möglichst allen eine angemessene Teilhabe am gemeinsamen Wohlstand sichern. Aber Ungleichheit unterliegt einem steten Wandel. Wer in jungen Jahren aus knappen Verhältnissen startet, mag nach erfolgreicher Karriere zu den Spitzenverdienern gehören. Und wer daran glaubt, bald selbst zu den Reichen zu gehören, hat womöglich weniger Verlangen danach, den eigenen Aufstieg mit progressiven Steuern und mehr Umverteilung zu erschweren. Wie weit klaffen Wahrnehmung und Wirklichkeit der Aufstiegschancen auseinander, und wie bestimmen die wahrgenommenen Aufstiegschancen die politische Unterstützung für mehr oder weniger Umverteilung?Alesina, Alberto, Stantcheva, Stefanie and Edoardo Teso (2018), Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution, American Economic Review 108(2), 521–554.

scholarly journals How do Economic Circumstances Determine Preferences? Evidence from Long-run Panel Data

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1381-1406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom O’Grady
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Preferences For Redistribution ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Family ◽  
Unemployment Risk ◽  
Empirical Tests

Preferences for redistribution and social spending are correlated with income and unemployment risk, but it is unclear how these relationships come about. I build a theory emphasizing that only large changes in economic circumstances provide the information and motivation needed for people to change their preferences. Stable long-run preferences are shaped mainly by early socialization, which includes economic and ideological influences from the family, and early labor market experiences. Enduring shocks, low intergenerational mobility and the tendency of left-wing parents to be poorer generate correlations between circumstances and preferences. Because preferences are stable, greater inequality may not increase aggregate support for redistribution. Support is found for the theory with panel data from Switzerland, using a range of empirical tests.

scholarly journals Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 521-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Alesina ◽  
Stefanie Stantcheva ◽  
Edoardo Teso
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Preferences For Redistribution ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Government

Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Americans are more optimistic than Europeans about social mobility. Our randomized treatment shows pessimistic information about mobility and increases support for redistribution, mostly for “equality of opportunity” policies. We find strong political polarization. Left-wing respondents are more pessimistic about mobility: their preferences for redistribution are correlated with their mobility perceptions; and they support more redistribution after seeing pessimistic information. None of this is true for right-wing respondents, possibly because they see the government as a “problem” and not as the “solution.” (JEL D63, D72, H23, H24, J31, J62)

Intergenerational Mobility in Occupational Status

2017 ◽  
Vol 00 ◽  
pp. 135-159
Author(s):  
Malik Muhammad ◽  
Muhammad Jamil
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Occupational Status

An Assessment of Garnier and Hazelrigg's Paper on Intergenerational Mobility in France

1976 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 388-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bertaux
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Mobility

The Politics of Part-Time Work: Gender, Employment Status, and Preferences for Redistribution

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
David S. Pedulla ◽  
Michael J. Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Employment Status ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Preferences For Redistribution ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Part Time Work

Abstract The social and economic forces that shape attitudes toward the welfare state are of central concern to social scientists. Scholarship in this area has paid limited attention to how working part-time, the employment status of nearly 20% of the U.S. workforce, affects redistribution preferences. In this article, we theoretically develop and empirically test an argument about the ways that part-time work, and its relationship to gender, shape redistribution preferences. We articulate two gender-differentiated pathways—one material and one about threats to social status—through which part-time work and gender may jointly shape individuals’ preferences for redistribution. We test our argument using cross-sectional and panel data from the General Social Survey in the United States. We find that the positive relationship between part-time employment, compared to full-time employment, and redistribution preferences is stronger for men than for women. Indeed, we do not detect a relationship between part-time work and redistribution preferences among women. Our results provide support for a gendered relationship between part-time employment and redistribution preferences and demonstrate that both material and status-based mechanisms shape this association.

scholarly journals Intergenerational Mobility in Education and Occupation and the effect of schooling on youth’s earnings in Brazil

EconomiA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos O. Garcias ◽  
Ana L. Kassouf
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Mobility
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