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dc.contributor.authorJiménez Jiménez, Natalia 
dc.contributor.authorMolís Bañales, Elena 
dc.contributor.authorSolano García, Ángel 
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-17T10:29:22Z
dc.date.available2020-11-17T10:29:22Z
dc.date.issued2020-07
dc.identifier.citationJiménez-Jiménez, N., Molis, E., & Solano-García, Á. (2018). The effect of initial inequality on meritocracy: A voting experiment on tax redistribution. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2018.09.019]es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10481/64312
dc.description.abstractAccording to Alesina and Angeletos (2005), societies are less redistributive but more efficient when the median voter believes that effort and talent are much more important than luck in determining income. We test these results through a lab experiment in which participants vote over the tax rate and their pre-tax income is determined according to their performance in a realeffort task with leisure time. Subjects receive either a high or a low wage and this condition is either obtained through their talent in a tournament or randomly assigned. We compare subjects' decisions in these two different scenarios, taking into consideration different levels of wage inequality. In our framework, this initial income inequality turns out to be crucial to support the theoretical hypothesis of Alesina and Angeletos (2005). Overall, we find that, only if the wage inequality is high, subjects choose a lower level of income redistribution and provide a higher effort level in the scenario in which high-wage subjects are selected based on their talent through a tournament (than when it is randomly assigned). Thus, we confirm almost all theoretical results in Alesina and Angeletos (2005) when the wage inequality is high enough. The big exception is for efficiency (measured as the sum of total payoffs), since theoretical results are not significant for both wage inequality scenarios.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipBBVA Foundation BBVA2015-3es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad ECO2016-76789-Pes_ES
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherElsevieres_ES
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subjectIncome redistributiones_ES
dc.subjectVoting es_ES
dc.subjectTaxation es_ES
dc.subjectReal-effort taskes_ES
dc.titleThe Effect of Initial Inequality on Meritocracy: a Voting Experiment on Tax Redistributiones_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.identifier.doidoi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2018.09.019
dc.type.hasVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersiones_ES


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