期刊名称：Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers (früher: Bank of Finland Discussion Papers)
印刷版ISSN：0785-3572
电子版ISSN：1456-6184
出版年度：2013
卷号：2013
出版社：Suomen Pankki = Bank of Finland
摘要：In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in in- equality due to forces like skill-biased technical change. Exploring movements around these long-term levels, however, this study nds mixed evidence regarding the vicious cycle hy- pothesis. On one hand, larger compensation di¤erentials are accepted as inequality grows. This growth in di¤erentials is of a smaller magnitude than the actual increase in inequality, but it is nonetheless positive and substantial in size. Weighing against this, growth in in- equality is met with greater support for government-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not result in weaker political preferences for redistribution.
关键词：Inequality; Social Preferences; Social Norms; Redistribution;Welfare; Class;Warfare.
