economy and thereby favor reducing income inequality when they realize their income-ability gap. We conducted an online survey … experiment in the US in which we assigned the treatment emphasizing each respondent's self-perception of the income-ability gap … randomly. We found that realizing the negative income-ability gap lowers respondents' perception of the fairness of the economy …

income distribution in both cases. We then establish that heterogeneity in family experiences throughout adult life is the … improve the work incentives in the middle 60% of the distribution of lifetime income. …

-scale survey experiments. In the first experiment, we randomly inform respondents about the relationship between parental income …

involved, we utilized their transformations to population and income quantiles. Altogether, we applied six methods of comparing … for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different … income distributions and present the respective approach for both continuous and discrete cases, the latter also being …

monetary units and different supports of the income distributions involved, we utilized their transformations to population and … have the disadvantage of ignoring the income distribution entirely. Global measures are affected by the drawback of all … progression depend heavily on the assumption that the same income distribution holds for both situations to be compared, which …

have changed in Sweden since the major tax reform over income distribution, sex, age, and geographical location. The … results show that individuals at the bottom and very top of the income distribution have benefited disproportionally more from … lower taxes. Labor tax payments as share of labor income have increased across the income distribution and particularity so …

The authors analyze to what extent and how the tax burden should be shifted towards top income earners in order to … reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient … revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship between top income shares and the Gini coefficient 2011) decomposition …

The authors analyze to what extent and how the tax burden should be shifted towards top income earners in order to … reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient … revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship between top income shares and the Gini coefficient 2011) decomposition …

TRA are demonstrated via measures of pre-tax and post-tax inequality based on gross household income and disposable … household income. Thus, the distribution of income, and also the tax payments, consist of components that are attributed to tax … changes and components that are driven by the pre-tax income. Typically, most analysts view the distribution of pre-tax and …