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- Carina Engelhardt & Andreas Wagener, 2014. "Biased Perceptions of Income Inequality and Redistribution," CESifo Working Paper Series 4838, CESifo.
- Engelhardt, Carina & Wagener, Andreas, 2014. "Biased Perceptions of Income Inequality and Redistribution," Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) dp-526, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät.
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JEL classification:
- H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LTV-2015-02-16 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-PBE-2015-02-16 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2015-02-16 (Positive Political Economics)
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