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 …

helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like … “the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.” That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with …

In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment … (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses … (Swiss, Western European, others). Willingness to pay for redistribution increases with income and education, contradicting …