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 …

affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S.. Americans are more optimistic than … redistribution, mostly for "equality of opportunity" policies. We find a strong political polarization. Left-wing respondents are … more pessimistic about mobility, their preferences for redistribution are correlated with their mobility perceptions, and …

happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …

Recent years have witnessed increased interest in issues of inequality and mobility in the labor market. Using data …

importance since mobility has a direct implication for the way one views the vast changes in wage and earnings inequality in the … computed over varying time horizons in order to examine how the effect on measured inequality as the time horizon is increased … is extended up to four years, reducing wage inequality by 12-26%. We proceed therefore with more detailed examination of …

This paper presents income shares, income inequality, and income immobility measures for all race and ethnic groups in …

distribution (relative to their parents) as children born in the 1970s. However, because inequality has risen, the consequences of …

earnings inequality in the United States. We first establish a consistent frame of analysis appropriate for administrative data … used to study earnings inequality. We show that the trends in earnings inequality in the administrative data from the …

The poor favor redistribution and the rich oppose it, but that is not all. Social mobility may make some of today …'s poor into tomorrow's rich and since redistributive policies do not change often, individual preferences for redistribution … should depend on the extent and the nature of social mobility. We estimate the determinants of preferences for redistribution …