Redistribution across individuals within the framework of a one-year period is an empirically intensely studied … question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer … perspective, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. In this paper, we investigate to what extent long …

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …

agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution …. -- perceptions of income distribution ; limited information ; preferences for redistribution ; field experiment … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political …

explores their potential impact on preferences for redistribution. A tailored household survey provides original evidence on … ranking. -- income distribution ; biased perceptions ; limited information ; preferences for redistribution … they were relatively richer than they were tend to demand higher levels of redistribution when informed of their true …

Welfare states redistribute both between individuals (inter-individual redistribution) reducing annual, cross …-sectional inequality and over the lifecycle of an individual (intra-individual redistribution) insuring individuals against income risks in … the long-term. But studies measuring redistribution often focus on a one-year period and the second aspect is neglected …

show that politics not only shapes redistribution, but also affects inequality produced by the market, with much of the …