policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country …-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since 1980. We first investigate the development of inequality … over time before analyzing the question of whether governments can effectively reduce inequality. Different identification …

Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using …

Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using …

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups has the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between race inequality decreases redistribution. …

increase the basic allowance would somewhat reduce inequality and improve vertical inequity in taxation. On the other hand, in … be achieved. At the same time, since in both cases redistribution will not affect the bottom decile group, no significant …

The effects of personal income tax changes are usually analyzed by comparing the inequality of income distributions …

, this inequality-reducing effect was almost exactly offset by changes in the relative positions of individuals and the … overall reduction in cross-sectional inequality was merely modest. …