"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 …

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …

so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at lower cost. The French tax code should be simplified and changed … transfers ; income inequality ; redistribution …

. The standard theory assumes that more unequal income distribution will create a majority for more redistribution (Meltzer … structure in decentralized government in Norway. The choice of revenue instruments studied involves user charges and property …

Norway. We introduce a new experimental approach, which combines the infrastructure of an international online market place … source of inequality and the cost of redistribution. We show that Americans and Norwegians differ significantly in fairness …

Denmark has drawn much attention for its active labor market policies, but is almost unique in offering a voluntary …; redistribution effects would be concentrated among the previously uninsured in the lowest decile of the income distribution, a …