Reap What They Sow? Education, Income, and Redistribution

• In Event: Poster Session: Comparative Politics III & Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies
  In Poster Session: Poster Session: Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies

Abstract

If an individual's educational investment in the knowledge economy builds higher expectations for economic return, low-income earners who are highly educated will suffer from relative deprivation with disappointment due to the mismatch between the expectation and experience. On the other hand, high-income earners who are less educated will enjoy relative wealth due to high income even without educational investment. Despite the sizable amount of these mismatched groups (by experienced and education-based expected income), research has been less focused on their redistribution preferences. To fill the gap, I argue that the experienced income conditions the effect of education-based expected income on redistribution preference formation.

Author

• Jiyeong Jeon, Texas A&M University