challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … improving by using a redistributive linear income tax if redistribution is initially not too large. We finally derive the … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their …

in line with our theory. …

of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility … strong support for the negative (positive) association between fairness perceptions and the demand for more equal incomes …

Regional productivity differences provide scope for productivity-enhancing labor mobility. Redistribution reduces …, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how regional inequality and labor mobility affect optimal redistribution …

the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market … processes and the income distribution after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of … ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that …