, growth and social mobility than under political regimes supported by the rich; pre-tax inequality is greater in the former …

education is a policy with regressive elements as it entails, among other things, a redistribution from the poor to the middle …

to reduced support for redistribution among natives. This paper exploits a nationwide program placing refugees in … increased immigrant shares on preferences for redistribution. The results show that a larger immigrant population leads to less … support for redistribution in the form of preferred social benefit levels. This reduction in support is especially pronounced …

democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …

We review the literature on the public choice approach to explaining redistribution policies. The focus is on policies … that are pursued with the sole reason to redistribute initial endowments. Moreover, we restrict ourselves to redistribution … in democracies. In democratic settings, generic redistribution games lack equilibria. Structure-inducing rules that give …

, giving rise to a trade-off between redistribution and the inefficiency of the labor allocation. We compare two environments … lower nominal value in open economies, the actual extent of redistribution in equilibrium is larger in the open than in the …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …