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 …

deserve tax breaks. We demonstrate that the German tax-transfer system conflicts with a welfarist inequality averse social … planner. It is consistent with a planner who is averse to both inequality and high tax liabilities. The tax-transfer schedule … European countries and the USA and show that their redistributive systems can be rationalized with an inequality averse social …

This paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and …

, their concept is able to explain what justifies a certain or optimal degree of inequality in the society. The authors …

the effects of two different constitutions (commitment or no commitment in tax policy), as well as income inequality …

the effects of two different constitutions (commitment or no commitment in tax policy), as well as income inequality …