Risk aversion and social mobility: The implausibility of order-preserving income redistributions

Leif Danziger; Heinrich W. Ursprung

doi:10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00523-7

Risk aversion and social mobility: The implausibility of order-preserving income redistributions

Leif Danziger
, Heinrich W. Ursprung

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Abstract

Social mobility can, in principle, explain political income redistributions. Nonetheless, by itself the social-mobility argument for redistribution is not plausible, as actual transition probabilities are inconsistent with order-preserving redistributions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9-13
Number of pages	5
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	74
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00523-7
State	Published - 20 Dec 2001
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

D31
D72
Income redistribution
Political economy
Social mobility

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Economics and Econometrics

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