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Replication Data for: Explaining Support for Redistribution: Social Insurance Systems and Fairness

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Title Replication Data for: Explaining Support for Redistribution: Social Insurance Systems and Fairness
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VNKZQF
 
Creator Fetscher, Verena
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Why do high-income earners support higher levels of income redistribution in some countries than in others? I argue that differences in the social insurance design have consequences for fairness considerations and that this matters for preference formation. Flat-rate systems provide social benefits in equal amounts to everyone in need, while earnings-related systems provide benefits in relation to previous earnings. In the case of income loss, earnings-related systems maintain unfair income differences, while flat-rate systems equalize unfair income differences between the rich and the poor. Cross-national patterns reveal that support for redistribution among the rich is higher in income-maintaining welfare states. For a strict test of my fairness argument, I conduct a laboratory experiment and show that participants reduce inequality more if given endowment differences are maintained in the case of loss.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Fairness
Redistribution preferences
Social Insurance Systems
 
Contributor Fetscher, Verena