Macroeconometric policy simulation models allow for an analysis, and, above all, for a quantification of the effects … increasing the VAT rate or the income tax rate?, and How much could the aggregate social security contribution rate be lowered if …

less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …