lifetime poor as increases to out-of-work benefits. This has important implications for the equity-efficiency trade … are an effective way of targeting the lifetime rich, as incomes are more persistent towards the top of the distribution …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

Does parental wealth inequality impact next generation labor income inequality? And does a tax on parental wealth …

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …

also who moves up and down the income ladder over time. While income inequality has increased in most OECD countries, in … progressive taxation has also reduced the top 1 per cent’s share of disposable income. This paper finds that income inequality … to greater income inequality but also higher upward income mobility. Indeed, the analysis in the paper shows upward …

support for redistribution. In line with the self-serving bias, those with negative mobility experiences 'blame the system …' and extrapolate from their experience onto society, which increases their demand for redistribution. Conversely, those who … support for redistribution. This suggests a potential demand-side explanation for the Great Gatsby Curve: As overall absolute …