-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …

-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …

This paper provides an empirical investigation on the drivers of tax and transfer income redistribution to working …. The analytical approach is based on a reduced-form model of income redistribution which is estimated through cross …-country-time series regressions. The baseline model builds on the political economy literature of income redistribution and includes a set …

, we analyse the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax benefit systems in the EUR-15 countries. We show that … the German system as a whole employs only a medium level of redistribution. However, this can be decomposed into a highly …

In determining the optimal redistribution of a given population's income, we ask which factor is more important: the … convex combination of (absolute) income and low relative income. Assuming that the redistribution comes at a cost (because …