Inequality and club formation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jaramillo, F; Kempf, H; Moizeau, F
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00162-1
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 931-955
• 关键词: club goods; INEQUALITY; core; social segmentation

摘要

We study the relationship between social segmentation and income inequality by means of the economic theory of clubs with private provision of the club good. After having characterized the core partition of society in clubs and investigating its characteristics, we show how the clubs' sizes depend on income distribution and compare segmentation profiles arising in societies characterized by different inequality patterns. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.