This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …

labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare …

changes the private households-CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the …

inequality, mean, and social welfare growth rates. We use a vast array of data sets and empirical methodologies to fill the gaps …

households and differences in price changes across goods and services lead to a different inflation rate for each household. In …Inflation is often assumed to affect all people in the same way. However, differences in spending patterns across … this paper, we estimate inflation rates for various population groups in Greece during the period 1999-2004 as well as the …

. Fiscal competition is associated with less income redistribution and a less equal distribution of disposable incomes, but …

; and in-kind transfers. The two methods are: survey-sample reweighting for households' nonresponse probability, and …