standards. The workhorse models of optimal income taxation call for more redistribution as inequality rises. By contrast, living …. Rising living standards dampen by at least 25% the desired increase in redistribution due to rising inequality. …

inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …