I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …

This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. As a natural experiment, we exploit the sudden …, and a pro-immigrant party received high vote shares. We further document that this episode of mass immigration had lasting … effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially …

We characterize optimal redistribution in a dynastic family model with human capital. We show how a government can …

do not decline, indicating no loss in redistribution. Our estimates imply a 9-14% social tax rate. The welfare benefits … of informal redistribution may come at a cost, depressing labor supply and productivity …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of … immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of …