What accounts for the growth of US top income inequality? This paper proposes a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis …; and (4) the "fattening" of the entire income distribution tail. This result supports the hierarchical redistribution … hypothesis. It is also consistent with the available empirical evidence on within-firm income redistribution. …

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …

), incorporates social occupations in the lab society, and allows for (voluntary) redistribution among subjects. The results show that …, regardless of (non-)random assignment to social jobs and the level of income inequality, individuals in social jobs are only …

by inequality, while decreases to the privately held portion of the public debt are likely to encounter resistance from …