If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R&D because it … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …

redistribution results in more post-tax inequality. In general, optimal taxation will either imply that the redistribution paradox is … suffers from moral hazard effects. Adopting this view, the paper studies the trade-off between average income and inequality … present or that the economy operates at a point of its efficiency frontier where more inequality implies a lower average …

inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping …

in time. In politico-economic equilibrium, more inequality (in terms of the skewedness of the distribution) yields a …

excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the ‘exporting’ of inequality across borders; and how this, in …

regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare …