for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation … positively correlated with both lifetime earnings and parents’ socio-economic status. …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

inequality. This method is a combination of microsimulation based decomposition (Bar gain and Callan, 2010) and a multivariate … importance of different individual character istics in income inequality. With the variance of log of incomes, the decomposition … effects. This method is applied to analyse the evolution of income inequality in Finland from 1993 to 2014. …

implies that delaying adjustment might reduce redistribution. We also suggest that these results might not be restricted … not be favourable to redistribution. …