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 …

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the … their effort, it will choose 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 …

We study the effect of the level of inequality in society on individual well being using a total of 123,668 answers to … inequality is high, even after controlling for individual income, a large set of personal characteristics, and year and country … (or, in the case of the US, state) dummies. The effect, however, appears to be stronger in Europe than in the US. In …

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 …

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 …

redistributive policies that intend to correct the inequality and injustice generated by corruption. We formalize these insights in a … inequality. Multiple steady states exist in some cases …

relationship between the political influence of the two groups and the level of taxation, public investment, redistribution of …

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 …