that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If …

blocks of lifetime disparities. We look at lifetime inequality and the redistribution properties of taxes and benefits using … the lowest earnings capacity, the tax and benefits system does achieve life-cycle redistribution. Other policies like …

a decline in cash transfer redistribution while personal income taxes played a less important and more heterogeneous …This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD … countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved …

Ethnic discrimination is ubiquitous, and it has been shown to exert adverse effects on income redistribution. The … work effort knowing that their income will finance redistribution to ethnic minorities. We test for this mechanism … statistically insignificantly. Workers' beliefs over the third party's redistribution rate do not mediate such results and are …

Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption … steeply declines with income, so that richer households pay a substantially larger share of their income in taxes. Our …

Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This … efficiency and distributional effects of mobility, and analyzes the economic incidence of fiscal transfers to low-skilled workers … that are financed by taxes on imperfectly-mobile high-skilled workers in a dynamic model, distinguishing the short …

Why do individuals' preferences for redistribution often diverge widely from their material self-interest? Using an … political economy of redistribution and the potential for information interventions to shift support for fiscal adjustment …

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 …