attendance, labor supply, wage determination, and aggregate production, which is used to compare alternative redistribution …

that redistribution is a function of the variance and skewness of the pre-tax income distribution, the volatility of income … of racial heterogeneity in the US and American political institutions. Racial animosity in the US makes redistribution to …

The poor favor redistribution and the rich oppose it, but that is not all. Social mobility may make some of today …'s poor into tomorrow's rich and since redistributive policies do not change often, individual preferences for redistribution … should depend on the extent and the nature of social mobility. We estimate the determinants of preferences for redistribution …

income distribution and the redistribution tastes of the government. When behavioral responses are concentrated along the …

for participants in the Health and Retirement Study to investigate redistribution under the current social security … high lifetime earnings to those with low lifetime earnings. However, much of this apparent redistribution is from men to … the total lifetime earnings, and spouse and survivor benefits are taken into account, the extent of redistribution from …

This paper examines the extent of redistribution that would occur under various annuity and bequest options as part of … account balance. However, efforts to reduce the extent of redistribution generally do so at the cost of significantly lower …