This paper analyses the political support for a social insurance that includes elements of redistribution when there …, regardless of the degree of redistribution of social insurance and the joint distribution of risk and income in the population …

In this paper we derive the equilibrium level of redistribution from one mobile factor (say, the rich or capital) to …

This paper investigates the effect of ethnolinguistic conflict on redistribution. The analysis focuses on the conflict … linguistic diversity is a better predictor of redistribution than linguistic polarization. We also find that incorporating …

We introduce labor contracts, in a framework of optimal redistribution: firms have some local market power and try to …

We endow individuals that differ in skill levels and tastes for working with altruistic preferences for redistribution … the lazy, we show that lower levels of redistribution emerge in political equilibrium. We provide empirical evidence …, based on the ISSP 1992 dataset, that preferences for redistribution are not purely selfish and that desert …