Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they, or their …

and benefits of redistribution through taxes, land reform or public schooling: such policies simultaneously depress …’ rent-seeking abilities, as well as with the gap between rich and poor. It is not income inequality per se that matters …, however, but inequality in the relative distribution of earning and political power. For each of the three channels of …

The poor favour 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 …

this phenomenon for international differences in political ideology, levels of redistribution, labour supply, aggregate …

inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping …

in time. In politico-economic equilibrium, more inequality (in terms of the skewedness of the distribution) yields a …

excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the ‘exporting’ of inequality across borders; and how this, in …

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R&D because it … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …

coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … redistribution and inequality. … create a “simulated tax redistribution index”, which captures the mechanical impact of the changes in tax policy on the gini …