This paper explores common trends in inequality and redistribution across OECD countries from the late 1980s to 2013 …. Most countries retreated from redistribution from the mid‐1990s until the onset of the Great Recession and compensatory … redistribution in response to rising unemployment was weaker in 2008‐13 than in the first half of the 1990s. As unemployment and …

in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support … than earnings) is positively associated with fiscal redistribution. In sum, revisiting an influential contribution to the … literature offers no support for the proposition that the structure of inequality has consequences for fiscal redistribution. …

Korpi and Palme (1998) famously suggested the existence of a Paradox of Redistribution:although programs targeted to … harmonized by LIS. My results showthat the relationship between the redistribution obtained by social transfers and their pro … the rich are unable to reachdown the income ladder and remain stuck at very low levels of redistribution.This reflects how …

country that justify the current redistribution policy. …

Income inequality is rising but there seems to be no clear-cut effect on redistribution preferences, which is … differences in individual merit and it is primarily non-merit based inequality that affects redistribution preferences. This view … redistribution preferences and that it is a better predictor than previously used measures. This suggests that the socio …

We study the effect of power sharing over income redistribution among different socio-economic groups in a model of …

redistribution in a comparative setting for the period 1967-2014. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to examine … household primary income inequality and disposable income inequality, redistribution from transfers and income taxes, and the … underlying social programs that drive the changes. We offer detailed information of fiscal redistribution in 47 countries for the …