This paper explores the nexus between the phenomenon of increasing income inequality and redistributive effects of the … difference between inequality of market incomes and disposable incomes. Moreover, this paper will try to estimate the … that the public sector still reduces market income inequality significantly but to a lower extent than in the previous …

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 …

demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random “bad luck” can frustrate the … redistribution. We then present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by one of the strongest seismic … with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution collected a few months later. The empirical analysis …

carbon emission reduction than redistribution (inequality reduction by transfers). However, those countries who contribute …This study investigates the relationship between distinct types of inequality and CO2 emissions using panel data on 156 … that pre-distribution (inequality reduction by structural changes and social protection) is better aligned with the goal of …

-economic inequality and not on the outcome of this process. …