against general redistribution. As diversity increases further, however, these policies are not sustainable. There exists a … critical threshold of diversity above which the only policy that can emerge supports exclusively general redistribution. In …

and benefits of redistribution through taxes, land reform or public schooling: such policies simultaneously depress …

costs and benefits of redistribution are generally of the same order of magnitude, resulting in reasonable values for the …

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. …

. In this paper, we analyze the implications of such a patriotic lock-in in a world with international migration and … redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution with international migration and fiscal competition we derive the main …

The paper presents evidence of an upward ratchet in transfers and taxes in the U.S. around World-War II. This finding … in the population who interacts with a (richer) agenda setter in Congress in setting redistribution. While the setter … managed to cap redistribution in the pre-war period, the War itself pushed up the status-quo tax burden, raising the …

inflation-reduction policy. The central idea is that the decision on membership of the union leads to a redistribution between …