also who moves up and down the income ladder over time. While income inequality has increased in most OECD countries, in … progressive taxation has also reduced the top 1 per cent’s share of disposable income. This paper finds that income inequality … to greater income inequality but also higher upward income mobility. Indeed, the analysis in the paper shows upward …

Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality … surprisingly, on what the actual levels of income inequality are, and there are common misperceptions about their trends. In policy …

This paper examines how perceptions of social mobility affect acceptance of inequality. We conduct a randomized … pessimistic perceptions change neither revealed distributional preferences nor support for greater redistribution or education …

policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country …-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since 1980. We first investigate the development of inequality … over time before analyzing the question of whether governments can effectively reduce inequality. Different identification …

A necessary condition for mobility to reduce the popular desire for redistribution is a significant positive … correlation between inequality and mobility. In Prieto et al. (2008), a significant positive relationship was found at the …

experiment shows that respondents do not account for parental influence on economic success when making (re-)distribution … decisions, suggesting that people view parental influence as a legitimate reason to justify some inequality. This can explain …

. -- inequality ; redistribution ; social expenditure ; progressive taxation …Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether …

Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using …

policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country …-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since 1980. We first investigate the development of inequality … over time before analyzing the question of whether governments can effectively reduce inequality. Different identification …

; inequality ; redistribution … can be concluded that both taxes and transfers reduce inequality of opportunities, with social benefits typically playing … the key role. Furthermore, the equalizing impacts of the tax benefit system on inequality of opportunity differ …