We examine the determinants of income inequality and mobility in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply. Individuals …

distribution of risks inside society, the Liberal system wins if the inequality of income is low, and the Beveridgean system wins … if the inequality of income is high. Using a utilitarian criterion, the Beveridgean system always dominates and the …

margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control ling for actual country … supply elasticities across countries. However, this changes the cross-country ranking in inequality aversion compared to …

. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i …) individuals living in states with mineral resources are more individualistic and support less redistribution by the government … ; (ii) the higher the number of mines in a states, the lower the support for governmental redistribution and the higher the …

alternative institutional options: the degree of labour market flexibility and the intensity of redistribution. We show that the … (positive flexibility versus positive redistribution). …