voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …

function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights …) to allow for alternatives to welfarism. We calculate weights of a social planner's function as implied by the German tax … and transfer system based on the concepts of welfarism, minimum absolute and relative sacrifice, as well as subjective …

social security system does not generate muchvertical redistribution. However, income redistribution takes placewithin the …This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequalityin four countries, namely Japan, South Korea …, Taiwan and the UnitedKingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures bypopulation groups and income sources …

" repeatedly vote for redistribution policies and engage in production. We find that women vote for more egalitarian redistribution …

We study the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child … redistribution across couples and efficiency are separable. Redistribution is performed via lump-sum transfers and taxes which are … care at a Pigouvian rate. However, in a second-best setting, a trade-off between efficiency and redistribution emerges. The …

decade. Galor identified three forms of long run percapita income convergence: absolute convergence, whereby convergence …