We investigate the consequences of redistribution policy on migration and trade in a Standard two-good Heckscher … country and causes suboptimal national redistribution policies in both countries. It is definitively in the interest of the …

economy, but there is not much evidence that countries with a large welfare state and substantial redistribution have worse … such consumer rivalry the government wishes to correct for the rat race, even if there is no need for redistribution, by …

Korpi and Palme's (1998) classic "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality" claims that universal … preferences for redistribution. We analyze rich democracies like Korpi and Palme, but we also generalize to a broader sample of … share and universalism; (2) redistribution preferences are negatively associated with low-income targeting; and (3 …

redistribution were consolidated in countries with political democracy and established interest representation. They were lowest in …