approach to characterize the redistributive preferences embodied in the welfare systems of 17 EU countries and the US. Implicit …

-Saxon countries. For Eastern Europe, our results are less definite. Looking at the impact of the tax and benefit schemes in the EU, it …

margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …

. Considerable cross-country differences are observed across the EU regarding both the level and the structure of earnings inequality …