This paper uses a laboratory experiment to explore individuals' motivations for redistribution. The laboratory results … show that as income uncertainty diminishes, participants become more extreme in their preferences for redistribution. The … findings suggest that for most people, the motivation for redistribution is financial self-interest – namely as insurance …

actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of … countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in observed income, but has a significantly smaller impact on actual … inequality, approximated by consumption-based GINIs. We show empirically that the differential effect on observed vs. actual …

and inequality. Finally, from the point of view of labor markets, by aiming to reduce perceived tax-wedges. This could be …

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their …

occupational wage inequality and their demand for redistribution. Most importantly, the framework explicitly allows for the … that subjective inequality measures and the demand for redistribution are substantially significant predictors of both …, they also prefer a lower level of overall wage inequality than what they perceive to exist. Consistent with previous …

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 …