examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …

Using new data from a three-wave panel survey administered in Germany between May 2020 and May 2021, this paper studies … preferences for redistribution. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous change in severity of the infection rate at the county level …, we show that, contrary to some theoretical expectations, the worse the crisis, the lower the support for redistribution …

taxation. Furthermore, from a Keynesian macroeconomic perspective redistribution may even be systematically conducive to growth … and employment. At the same time a change towards such a policy of redistribution may for some economies, particularly the … erhebliche Spielräume für steuerpolitische Umverteilung gibt. Zudem kann Umverteilung aus einer keynesianischen makroökonomischen …