infuence or bribe politicians, and when inequality and potential taxes are high (which makes redistribution more valuable to …, they are effectively accepting a certain amount of politician (presidential) rents in return for redistribution. We show …

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 …

. In particular, relatively little weight has been given to reducing tax expenditures and raising taxes on immovable … growth: increases in the effective retirement age, raising efficiency in the education and health care systems, cutting … certain tax expenditures, hiking taxes on immovable property and broadly-based consumption taxes. Increases in capital income …

Taxes and transfers reduce inequality in disposable income relative to market income. The effect varies, however …, across OECD countries. The redistributive impact of taxes and transfers depends on the size, mix and the progressivity of … redistributive impact as countries characterised by much higher taxes and transfers (e.g. Germany) because they rely more on income …

Bolivia but they are on opposite sides in terms of the extent of redistribution.Fourth, due to indirect taxes households are … argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty … a unity is misleading. The (after direct taxes and transfers) Gini, for example, declines by over 10 percent in …

Bolivia but they are on opposite sides in terms of the extent of redistribution. Fourth, due to indirect taxes households are … argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty … a unity is misleading. The (after direct taxes and transfers) Gini, for example, declines by over 10 percent in …

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 …

?uence or bribe politicians, and when inequality and potential taxes are high (which makes redistribution more valuable to the …, they are e?ectively accepting a certain amount of politician (presidential) rents in return for redistribution. We show …

The paper presents evidence of an upward ratchet in transfers and taxes in the U.S. around World-War II. This finding … in the population who interacts with a (richer) agenda setter in Congress in setting redistribution. While the setter … managed to cap redistribution in the pre-war period, the War itself pushed up the status-quo tax burden, raising the …