inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary … inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly simplistic and inadequate with respect …

The extent of taxation and redistribution Policy is generally determined as a political-economy equilibrium by a … burden and less redistribution than would be the case with no immigration, even though migrants (naturally) join the pro …

inequality on public goods production, which Olson (1965) pointed to, is weakened and might even be reversed in this context …

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …

investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from … to different views on whether to accept inequality. Left-wing spectators substantially reduce inequality when cheating is …. These results suggest that redistributive preferences will diverge even more once public awareness increases that inequality …

a two-party system in which the left-wing party has a larger preference for redistribution than the right-wing party … government has incentives to fi- nance redistribution via external debt to avoid distortionary income taxation. On the other hand …