support high level of redistribution because they hope to be rich in the future). We consider a setting where individuals … gender. We find that the POUM effect could increase or decrease the support for redistribution depending on the parameters of … of the POUM effect in Italy. -- social mobility ; income distribution ; political economy ; inequality ; taxation …

inequality influences redistribution preferences. Rising inequality may damage social stability and democracy, but it is unclear … gerechte" Einkommensverteilung ist, bleibt fraglich. Zusammenhänge können allerdings diskutiert werden: Ist Ungleichheit der …. But inequality has not risen in either Germany or Switzerland since 2005. Nevertheless, Germans overestimate inequality …

mechanism through which the pressure for redistribution can be highly non linear therefore providing an explanation as to … whymore inequality can be associated with less, rather than more, redistributive taxation. Our framework displays multiple … pattern of income distribution and local versus social spillovers ratio under which inequality and segregation persist in the …

Despite a strong theoretical prediction that income skewness and redistribution should be positively linked, empirical … skewness. Under imperfect information, these developments affect redistribution in different ways. While rising polarization … increases redistribution, upward mobility can have the opposite effect. Reasonable degrees of informational imperfection are …

individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study - whether the … taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate or too low - are used to elicit attitudes toward redistribution … years. The results reveal that intergenerational mobility is significantly related to preferences for redistribution. The …