conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for …. At an aggregate level, a rise in redistribution induces a compression effect on the distribution of pre-tax returns. In … the financial market, I identify general equilibrium trickle-up externalities that provide a force for more redistribution …

In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

This paper examines the effects of a unilateral reform of the redistribution policy in an economy open to international …-reforming trading partner, the unilateral redistribution policy reform resembles a unilateral increase in trade costs leading to a …

opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample who observe worker outcomes and … lucky opportunities. Our findings have implications for models that seek to understand and predict redistribution attitudes …, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends …

The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens' preferences for income redistribution. They are … elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its …