Desigualtat, individualisme i col·lectivisme
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There is an extensive literature that discusses the different causes of inequality, as well as its negative consequences. However, few articles have deepened in the impact that culture has on inequality. The purpose of this paper is to explore this relationship. Using the Hofstede and Schwartz culture indexes, which are crystallized in the individualism-collectivism dichotomy, and the GINI index, extracted from the WIDID (World Income Inequality Database), we find that societies with individualistic values tend to have a less degree of inequality, while collective societies, inequality tends to
increase. The previous relationship implies correlation and not causality and, in order to control this problem, the pathogen instrumental variable is used. After using the instrument and control variables, the results show that individualism – collectivism loses signification, which means that the relationship could be channelled by other variables