Project description
The effect of economic inequality on societal openness
Economic inequality has long been thought to diminish societal openness. Empirical evidence to support the argument mostly comes from studies that compare societies with different levels of inequality at the same point in time. The few available studies that track changes in inequality over time and then relate these to changes in societal fundamentals have regularly failed to confirm the argument, however. To reexamine the question, the EU-funded POLAR project aims to create four new multilevel databases that combine microdata from over 30 countries and offer observation windows spanning as far back as the 1970s to gain leverage for a longitudinal empirical analysis. These newly constructed databases will be used for a detailed decomposition of inequality trends and for an analysis of the role of economic inequality for social mobility, support for democracy, and social cohesion in Western societies.
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ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant
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60323 Frankfurt Am Main
Germany
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60323 Frankfurt Am Main
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