give specific attention to the choice of the bandwidth used to define "close equals" in terms of pre-tax income. We also …

deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their … individuals may not only care about vertical redistribution, but also about the economic situation of the specific groups they … belong to, the horizontal dimension of redistribution becomes politically salient and can be a source of social tensions. We …

perceptions and preferences for redistribution differ when top earners gain their incomes through luck, routine work, or complex …

the German income tax. As previous literature shows, even with synthetic income taxation, tax progression was strongest in …This paper analyzes the effect of the introduction of a final withholding tax on capital income on the progression of … the middle of the income distribution, and decreased for high incomes. At the top, notably for the richest top 0.001 % of …