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 …

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 …

coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … redistribution and inequality … create a "simulated tax redistribution index", which captures the mechanical impact of the changes in tax policy on the gini …

relationship between factor-income inequality and the extent of redistribution. We also find a link between our redistributive …We examine empirically the relationship between the extent of redistribution and the components of the Mirrlees … framework, with a focus on inherent inequality and government’s redistributive preferences. We have constructed our income …

equilibrium concept for personal income distribution which is located in status theory and which can explain why a certain or … likewise “optimal” degree of inequality is warranted in the society. In the empirical section of the paper, the authors present …

Just as the Gini inequality index captures people's relative deprivation [Yitzhaki (1979)], so, we show in this paper … and redistribution of income generalise to the family of indices based on the extended Ginis of Donaldson and Weymark … (1980) and Yitzhaki (1983). Through "leaky bucket" experiments, we also suggest how we can parameterise the inequality …

Just as the Gini inequality index captures people's relative deprivation [Yitzhaki (1979)], so, we show in this paper … and redistribution of income generalise to the family of indices based on the extended Ginis of Donaldson and Weymark … (1980) and Yitzhaki (1983). Through "leaky bucket" experiments, we also suggest how we can parameterise the inequality …

households. We find that the system of joint taxation is only optimal when the government has a high taste for redistribution … towards one-earner couples and a very low or even negative taste for redistribution towards couples in which both partners …