A meritocratic fairness ideal is generally believed to regard income inequality as fair if it stems from performance … lead individuals to support income redistribution, while also obtaining an assessment regarding to what degree …

unselfish though rational demand for redistribution. This leads the well off to prefer higher taxes and the poor to reject … redistribution by individuals with high income and to a lower demand for redistribution by those with low income. …

Income inequality is rising but there seems to be no clear-cut effect on redistribution preferences, which is … differences in individual merit and it is primarily non-merit based inequality that affects redistribution preferences. This view … redistribution preferences and that it is a better predictor than previously used measures. This suggests that the socio …

We study the effect of power sharing over income redistribution among different socio-economic groups in a model of … redistributive politics with fairness concern. We prove that a unique pure-strategy equilibrium exists under fairly general …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived fairness will experience higher levels of life-time utility and are … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …