We study interactions between progressive labor taxation and social security reform. Increasing longevity puts fiscal … strain that necessitates the social security reform. The current social security is redistributive, thus providing (at least … partial) insurance against idiosyncratic income shocks, but at the expense of labor supply distortions. A reform which links …

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 …

several times, and personal income tax reform has figured prominently on almost each of the revision agendas. This paper aims … one of 2011 being designed to have the largest fiscal gains. The latter also strengthened redistribution and achieved the … highest decrease in income inequality. The 2013 reform went to the opposite direction by reducing both the redistributive …

several times, and personal income tax reform has figured prominently on almost each of the revision agendas. This paper aims … one of 2011 being designed to have the largest fiscal gains. The latter also strengthened redistribution and achieved the … highest decrease in income inequality. The 2013 reform went to the opposite direction by reducing both the redistributive …

This paper examines the effect of immigration on the level of income redistribution via majority voting on the income …

redistribution. The government of a two-party democracy is elected by altruistic voters and decides on a redistributive income tax … levels of redistribution and tax rates in the political equilibrium: (i) in-group altruism of the rich voters|which we refer …

redistribution. To this end, we test a model based on Meltzer and Richard's (1981) framework through a lab experiment in which … redistributing income. This result suggests that the lack of information about the role of taxes in income redistribution may be an … important factor in explaining the counter-intuitive voting behavior of low-income voters over income redistribution. We also …