Social status, preferences for redistribution and optimal taxation: a survey

Gallice, Andrea

doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2018-55

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“…Such torment related to status or status loss can be expected to trigger an internal surveillance system to take action by means of mitigating policy measures to counteract one's personal transition towards further economic decline and/or unfair disparities in trends generally. This comports with recent research showing how support for redistribution policies might be particularly sensitive to concerns about economic fairness and status-loss (Brown-Iannuzzi et al, 2015;Gallice, 2018;Gallice & Grillo, 2020). In sum, experiences of positional deprivation likely awaken concern about status (loss) and distaste for economic inequalities, and demands that something be done to redress these-most obviously government intervention-to reduce income differences through regulation, taxation, and spending measures.…”

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Positional Deprivation and Support for Redistribution and Social Insurance in Europe

Baute

Noort

2022

Comparative Political Studies

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We argue that support for redistribution increases when one experiences “positional deprivation,” situations when one’s own income increases slower or decreases faster compared to that of others. This specific combination of economic suffering over-time and relative to others has effects beyond well-studied measures of suffering that are static and/or absolute in nature, such as income level. We empirically explore this hypothesis by using “objective-material” measures of positional deprivation derived from the Luxembourg Income Studies and the European Social Survey, and by using “subjective” measures derived from an original survey in 13 European countries. We find that those whose income growth is outpaced by the average and/or richest members of their country are more likely to support redistribution. We also find that the objective and subjective measures of positional deprivation are significantly correlated, and that positional deprivation’s fostering of support for redistribution holds above-and-beyond static and/or absolute measures of economic experience.

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Positional Deprivation and Support for Redistribution and Social Insurance in Europe

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Noort

2022

Comparative Political Studies

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“…Consumers of luxury goods are arrogant and rich people so that luxury goods should be taxed more heavily (Ying et al, 2011). The imposition of a well-designed income tax can limit the willingness of individuals to increase the supply of labor and the possibility to discriminate against other indi-viduals who have different levels of position (Gallice, 2018). Most individuals pay attention to the relative income and relative consumption of certain goods; therefore, the imposition of much higher taxes on luxury goods can reduce the consumption of these goods (Alpizar et al, 2005).…”

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Tax Policy in Limiting the Consumption of Luxury Goods

Yossinomita¹

2022

R. Econ. and Finan.

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This literature review explores tax policy in reducing or limiting the consumption of luxury goods. This exploration has crucial theoretical and practical significance with the rapid development of the economy and technology, in which the income level of the people has increased rapidly. Excessive consumption of luxury goods will have a negative impact on the country's economic development. This is because inequality is widening, income is reduced, social equality is lost, and the demand for domestic goods will weaken. These issues will later cause widespread public concern. The policy to reduce or limit the consumption of luxury goods marked by an increase in consumption outflows is the adjustment of taxes on luxury goods. As one of the macroeconomic control policies taken by the government, the adjustment of tariffs, income taxes, and consumption taxes on luxury goods has proven to be effective in controlling the demand for luxury goods. Several international studies have obtained a fairly in-depth analysis of this issue from a tax policy perspective. This study attempts to explore the international research literature on tax policy in limiting the consumption of luxury goods.

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“…See Postlewaite (1998). 2 See Gallice (2018) for a recent survey about social status, redistribution and optimal taxation. dowment which determines their matching value.…”

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“…Thus, the matching value reflects the individual position in the distribution of wealth and its class of origin. 4 Bilancini and Boncinelli (2008, 2012, 2018) stress that the shape of status concerns is as much as relevant as the arrangement itself. For example, when status has cardinal considerations, i.e., it depends not only on the ordinal ranking but also on the distance from the others, then equality may reduce status consumption.…”

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Social limits to redistribution and conspicuous norms

Ferrari

2018

Economics

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In this article the author considers an economy in which individuals are matched into pairs and the desirability of an individual depends on her position on the distribution of wealth. He assumes that individuals show their relative standing by consuming a conspicuous good and he shows that there exist different social norms supporting different matching arrangements. In addition, individuals have to vote over a redistributive policy and the author shows that, despite the desirability of the full redistributive outcomes, under some economic conditions the medium class is able to match with the high class in exchange of a minimum level of redistribution of wealth which keeps the low class far from economic and social opportunities.

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Social status, preferences for redistribution and optimal taxation: a survey

Cited by 4 publications

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Positional Deprivation and Support for Redistribution and Social Insurance in Europe

Positional Deprivation and Support for Redistribution and Social Insurance in Europe

Tax Policy in Limiting the Consumption of Luxury Goods

Social limits to redistribution and conspicuous norms

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