Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2011
preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To … approach to characterize the redistributive preferences embodied in the welfare systems of 17 EU countries and the US. Implicit … social welfare functions are broadly compatible with the fi ction of an optimizing Paretian social planner. Some exceptions …