imperfections make future earning a function of current resources. Combined with the politics of redistribution this creates the … potential for multiple steady-states, with mutually reinforcing high inequality and low redistribution, or vice-versa. Temporary …

redistribution creates more post-tax inequality. The welfare state will encounter severe risks when free migration of people, goods …

some key marginal districts. This leads to less public goods, less rents for politicians, more redistribution and larger … politicians redistribution, and smaller government. We confront these predictions with cross-country data from around 1990 …

immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical … literature on the effects of racial diversity and immigration on support for redistribution in the US and Europe …

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 …

Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries … 1990, East Germans lived under a Communist regime with heavy state intervention and extensive redistribution. We find that …, after German reunification, East Germans are more in favor of redistribution and state intervention than West Germans, even …