We examine whether individuals' experienced levels of income inequality affect their preferences for redistribution. We … their lives are less in favor of redistribution, after controlling for income, demographics, unemployment experiences and … inequality and reduce their demand for redistribution …

I propose a model of income redistribution in an open-economy environment. The world consists of a finite number of … income. While tax competition limits the extent to which redistribution is possible — as compared to the closed …

optimal redistribution and social protection policies are in place, globalization necessarily improves social welfare …

“blunt instrument” for redistribution. To delve deeper in this issue we build models in which workers are heterogeneous in … unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods …-kind redistribution, and (iii) the MW institution is politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution …

This paper analyses optimal corrective taxation and optimal income redistribution. Under general utility functions, the …

We examine whether and to what extent political institutions explain different performances in income redistribution … across countries. In particular, we first review available sources of data and measures of income redistribution, discussing … explanations of redistribution from resources and instruments, as well as supply side factors. We then provide empirical evidence …

voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged …

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes – though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …