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

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …

intra-generational redistribution. What would the impact of these differences be if EU citizens had free access to all …

We develop a model of optimal carbon taxation and redistribution taking into account horizontal equity concerns by …-efficient households if and only if social inequality aversion is sufficiently high. We further find that redistribution of carbon tax …

Building on the existing literature that examines the extent of redistribution in the Social Security system as a whole … inequality. Second, we find that this result is driven largely by the lack of redistribution across the middle and upper part of … distribution. Third, in cases where redistribution does occur, we find it is not efficiently targeted: many high income households …

using a redistributive non-linear income tax if redistribution is initially not too large. Moreover, the increase of …

context, we examine the impact of redistributive taxation and compute socially optimal tax rates. Redistribution acts as …