The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government …

security systems are smaller. We relate the stylized fact to an "efficiency-redistribution" trade-off to be resolved by …

redistribution. Current measures employed in the sociology and politics of redistribution are seriously flawed. This paper elaborates … redistribution as a micro-level income mobility process, and develops an index to measure it. Using data from the Luxembourg Income … Study, the paper shows that the new measure of redistribution developed in this paper is empirically distinct from the …

The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution … inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the median voter theorem seems not to be the driving force of this mechanism …, the elasticity of redistribution to poor classes to their income has decreased over the last decade, suggesting a …