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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Department of Economics |
| Number | No. 09 |
| ISSN | 1664-7041 |
| Date | 2011 |
| Abstract Text | This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are much smaller than differences with respect to inequality perceptions or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the same inequality perceptions and distributional norms. |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/static/wp/econwp009.pdf |
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| Keywords | Subjective inequality indices, redistributive preferences, political preferences, Deutschland, Ungleichheit, Umverteilung, Präferenz, Westdeutschland, Deutschland (Östliche Länder), Ost-West-Beziehungen |