Change in Inequality and Aggregation of Subjective Well-being by Redistribution of Income

• ISHIDA Atsushi

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 仮想的所得再分配による不平等と幸福総和の変動
• カソウテキ ショトク サイブンパイ ニ ヨル フビョウドウ ト コウフク ソウワ ノ ヘンドウ 2005ネン SSM チョウサ データ オ モチイタ シミュレーション ブンセキ
• A simulation analysis using the 2005 SSM survey dataset
• 2005年SSM調査データを用いたシミュレーション分析

Abstract

Recently, normative studies on distribution principles have begun to attract the attention of many sociologists. I would like to propose a sociological research program that can contribute to these normative discussions. The research program I propose aims to estimate various social influences that are a result of the application of a certain distribution principle. On the basis of this concept, this study aims to simulate a change in the aggregation of subjective well-being through the virtual redistribution of income using the 2005 Social Stratification and Social Mobility (SSM) Survey dataset. In this article, I apply the egalitarian redistribution method so as to analyze the relationship between the reduction of inequality and aggregation of subjective well-being. At first, the function of subjective wellbeing (life satisfaction score) to income is presumed from the data according to an individual socio-economic profile. Subsequently, using these functions, the change in the aggregation of subjective well-being by certain redistribution is estimated.<br>As a result of the analysis, two main findings are obtained. First, in both the redistribution of individual income model and the family income model, the effect of the egalitarian redistribution of income on the aggregation of subjective well-being is restrictive. Second, a moderate equalized redistribution results in maximum increase of the social aggregation of subjective well-being. This suggests that a moderate equal distribution is effective for the purpose of the efficient improvement of societal well-being.

Journal

• Japanese Sociological Review

  Japanese Sociological Review 59 (4), 752-768, 2009

  The Japan Sociological Society

Keywords

• redistribution of income
• subjective well-being
• inequality

Details

• CRID: 1390001204293769344
• NII Article ID: 110007039831
• NII Book ID: AN00109823
• DOI: 10.4057/jsr.59.752
• ISSN: 18842755
• ISSN: 00215414
• NDL BIB ID: 10229280
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I10229280
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