If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R and D because it … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …

This paper explores common trends in inequality and redistribution across OECD countries from the late 1980s to 2013 …. Most countries retreated from redistribution from the mid‐1990s until the onset of the Great Recession and compensatory … redistribution in response to rising unemployment was weaker in 2008‐13 than in the first half of the 1990s. As unemployment and …