The Fondation France-Japon de l'EHESS is pleased to invite you to the international workshop held in Paris with the support of the Toyota Foundation Research Grant Program and the JSPS Kakenhi Program:
Inequalities and Preference for Redistribution
18 & 19 March 2019
Paris School of Economics (48 bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris)
Room R2-21, 2nd floor
Inequalities have increased over the last thirty years. However, this increase has not been the same in every country. Moreover, the perception of these inequalities differs across countries in a paradoxical way: concern about inequality is the largest in Europe, where it has been actually slighter. Differences between actual inequalities and their perception could be explained by a difference of values in the three regions of study, USA, Europe and Japan. Does the perception of inequalities matter more than the objective determinants of inequalities as it leads to different forms of redistribution?
Session I: Inequalities and Preference for Redistribution: Beyond the Transatlantic Perspective
With: Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi University), Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS) & Thanasak Jenmana (Paris School of Economics); Henning Finseraas (Institute for Social Research); Sayaka Sakoda (Doshisha University) & Toshiaki Tachibanaki (Kyoto Women’s University)
Keynote Speech: Alberto Alesina (Harvard University): "Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution: a Transatlantic Perspective"
Session II: Exploring the Determinants of the Preference for Redistribution: Immigration, Fairness Norms and Education
With: Sabina Avdagic (University of Sussex); Soo Kyeong Hwang (Korea Development Institute); Kunio Urakawa (Kyushu University)
Keynote Speech: Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics): "Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict"
Session III: Inequalities and Political Cleavages
With: Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics) & Conchita D'Ambrosio (University of Luxembourg); Paul Marx (University of Duisburg Essen); Amory Gethin (Paris School of Economics) & Clara Martinez-Toledano (Paris School of Economics)
Keynote Speech: Christina Fong (Carnegie Mellon University): "Redistributive Politics with Target-Specific Beliefs"
Detailed program: http://ffj.ehess.fr/upload/Actualites/Events/2019/FFJ_2019-03-18_Program_Inequalities-and%...
The workshop is open to the public but registration is required at ffj@ehess.fr