Ferriere, Axelle; Grübener, Philipp; Sachs, Dominik - 2024
standards. The workhorse models of optimal income taxation call for more redistribution as inequality rises. By contrast, living …. Rising living standards dampen by at least 25% the desired increase in redistribution due to rising inequality. …Over the last decades, the United States has experienced a large increase in, both, income inequality and living …