forming their preferences and evaluating its fairness. Taking advantage of the Bismarckian rule of proportionality in Germany … between beneficiary groups lowers perceived fairness and increases the demand for redistribution. Both citizens and … favor of more redistribution from high to low earners in the retirement phase. Our design utilizes a representative survey …

individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study - whether the … for redistribution ; intergenerational mobility ; long-run earnings ; panel data … taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate or too low - are used to elicit attitudes toward redistribution …

Using new data from a three-wave panel survey administered in Germany between May 2020 and May 2021, this paper studies … preferences for redistribution. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous change in severity of the infection rate at the county level …, we show that, contrary to some theoretical expectations, the worse the crisis, the lower the support for redistribution …

Redistribution differs widely across countries, but our understanding of why this is the case is limited. In … democracies, the extent of redistribution should ultimately reflect citizens’ preferences. We measure preferences for … redistribution in six developed countries through internationally standardized questions in which respondents are faced with …

determinants of redistribution support, in line with hypothesised patterns. We find that while differences in beliefs on what …