"blunt instrument" for redistribution. To do so we build a model in which workers are heterogeneous in ability, and the … government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods. We show that the MW institution is … politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution. To examine the empirical relevance of our …

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 …

The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model … that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher … inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. Using the new data on Non …