Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022
European countries and the USA and show that their redistributive systems can be rationalized with an inequality averse social … deserve tax breaks. We demonstrate that the German tax-transfer system conflicts with a welfarist inequality averse social … planner. It is consistent with a planner who is averse to both inequality and high tax liabilities. The tax-transfer schedule …