The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution in a country is still ongoing. We … initial inequality, there should be more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. We test these … redistribution and, to some extent, that there is more redistribution with rising inequality. Hence, on the basis of a direct measure …

claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic … fact become a very weak one. For what it matters, targeting tends to be associated with higher levels of redistribution …

blocks of lifetime disparities. We look at lifetime inequality and the redistribution properties of taxes and benefits using …In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on … annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime …