income distribution when the funds are rebated to households through reductions in the payroll tax and personal income tax … indicates that reforms can be designed to preserve the existing income distribution. In fact, it appears to be easier to …

data on 322,000 families in the U.S. Treasury's Distribution Model to study vertical redistributions between rich and poor …

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the … their effort, it will chose low redistribution and low taxes. In equilibrium effort will be high, the role of luck limited … income inequality and choices of redistributive policies …

The purpose of the present note is to explore the structure of optimal income taxation/redistribution in an economy …, of course, an additional incentive for income redistribution from wealthy to poor citizens is created and the logical … income distribution and its interaction with the elasticity of the marginal utility of consumption; of course, "labor supply …

skills or not. The government influences individual decision-making by redistribution of income or by subsidizing investment … in skills. Both types of policies have complicated effects on income inequality and social welfare. The first policy … inequality aversion and financing the subsidy is not too distortive …

This paper constructs a simple model of pair-wise tournament competition to investigate categorical redistribution in … winner-take-all markets. We consider two forms of redistribution: category-sighted, where employers are allowed to use … equilibrium category-sighted redistribution scheme involves a constant handicap given to agents in the disadvantaged category …