wage setting and fiscal redistribution policy. We find that search frictions are less important for wages of the low …) gaining due to the redistribution. …

We review the literature on the public choice approach to explaining redistribution policies. The focus is on policies … that are pursued with the sole reason to redistribute initial endowments. Moreover, we restrict ourselves to redistribution … in democracies. In democratic settings, generic redistribution games lack equilibria. Structure-inducing rules that give …

We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax …

Regional productivity differences provide scope for productivity-enhancing labor mobility. Redistribution reduces …, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how regional inequality and labor mobility affect optimal redistribution …

the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market … processes and the income distribution after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of … ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that …