This paper revisits the relationship between inequality and redistribution in a panel of advanced OECD countries. Using …-monotonic relationship between pre-tax-and transfer distribution of income and redistribution. Relative to mean income, a more affluent rich … and middle class are associated with less redistribution and a richer poor class is associated with more redistribution …

This paper discusses the issue of taxation and redistribution in economies dominated by Elites with limited state …

of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility …

Political economics predicts that the rich oppose redistribution and vote for conservative parties. Although this …

, is strong enough to make such a redistribution an attractive, maybe provocative, policy alternative. Across the border in … - redistribution towards profits. We discuss several possible explanations such as the formation of expectations and the different …

Commodity taxes have three distinct roles: (1) revenue collection, (2) interpersonal redistribution, and (3) resource …

In models of redistribution, diff erences in human capital are often the relevant source of heterogeneity amongst …