redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …

redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …

inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …

This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals … inequality which they perceive to exist. The empirical analysis also shows that the demand for redistribution is strongly … associated not only with variables describing self-interested motives for redistribution, but also with perceptions of and social …

occupational wage inequality and their demand for redistribution. Most importantly, the framework explicitly allows for the … perceptions of how wages are determined in reality all simultaneously influence the demand for redistribution. Finally, I show … that subjective inequality measures and the demand for redistribution are substantially significant predictors of both …

corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model … model perceived corruption influences people's preferences for redistribution through two channels. On the one hand it … undermines trust in government, which reduces people's support for redistribution. On the other hand, more corruption decreases …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …

A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We … ground acceleration registered during each shock with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution we show that … inequalities should be levelled by redistribution. The shocks, however, are not all alike. We find that only the last three shakes …