justness. For the latter we use a novel question from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find that the minimum absolute … sacrifice principle is in line with social weights that decline with net income. Absolute subjective justness is roughly in line …

justness. For the latter we use a novel question from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find that the minimum absolute … sacrifice principle is in line with social weights that decline with net income. Absolute subjective justness is roughly in line …

deserve tax breaks. We demonstrate that the German tax-transfer system conflicts with a welfarist inequality averse social … planner. It is consistent with a planner who is averse to both inequality and high tax liabilities. The tax-transfer schedule … European countries and the USA and show that their redistributive systems can be rationalized with an inequality averse social …

that the optimal progressivity increases unambiguously with growing income inequality. This conclusion holds up under … different assumptions about the efficiency cost of taxation and society`s aversion to inequality …