Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes. Nevertheless, it is still an open question what … people’s preferences are regarding this form of redistribution. This paper reviews experimental evidence on preferences … regarding redistribution and asks what this evidence tells us about preferences for redistribution through pension schemes. We …

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility … perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …

would be expected from non-cooperative theory. Second, this possible solidarity among ‘brothers in arms’ when fighting …

When based on perceived rather than on objective income distributions, the Meltzer-Richards hypothesis and the POUM … and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes – though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic … transfers over this period is taken into account. We show that the increase in capital’s share of total income and the presence …

. Fiscal competition is associated with less income redistribution and a less equal distribution of disposable incomes, but … parliamentary regimes) on the extent and direction of income (re-) distribution. Empirical evidence is presented for a large sample … also with a more equal primary income distribution. Our evidence also is in line with earlier empirical contributions that …