the income distribution actually enhances or weakens their redistributive impact. Korpi and Palme have influentially … claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic … fact become a very weak one. For what it matters, targeting tends to be associated with higher levels of redistribution …

In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument - the …

inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital … speaking reflecting inequality) has somewhat interesting effects along the transitional path towards balanced growth. Hereby …

the lower end of the income distribution. Based on data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we show that … for the Conservative Party. As far as tolerance for high incomes is related to tolerance of inequality, our results may …

Support for redistribution depends on whether inequality stems from differences in performance or luck, but different … sources of luck may impact redistribution differentially. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample … shaping attitudes towards inequality. …

Can inequality in rewards result in an erosion in broad-based support for meritocratic norms? We hypothesize that … social preferences for redistribution. Two separate experiments (one in the UK and the other in the USA) show that the elite …

addition, we highlight an empirical implementation issue - the definition of the reference ('pre-fisc') distribution. Drawing …

Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

national income (or wealth) appropriated by the same income group. In turn, we develop the Fiscal Inequality Coefficient which …