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 …

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 …

This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries … taxes promoted the progressivity of the tax system and contributed to the reduction of inequality. Yet, the effectiveness of …

The inheritance tax is often seen as an effective tool to reduce wealth inequality, to raise public budgets if needed … tool for fighting wealth inequality without having distorting effects for the economy. For this purpose, the distributional …

deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their … performance in dealing with horizontal inequality, that is, in redistributing among socio-economic groups. In a context where … individuals may not only care about vertical redistribution, but also about the economic situation of the specific groups they …

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument - the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …