We examine the effect of economic globalisation on income redistribution and hypothesise that it depends on ethnic … jure financial globalisation on redistribution. In particular, the total effect of de jure financial globalisation on … redistribution is negative in highly fractionalised countries. Governments in these countries are apparently not only reluctant to …

and redistribution of income generalise to the family of indices based on the extended Ginis of Donaldson and Weymark …

and redistribution of income generalise to the family of indices based on the extended Ginis of Donaldson and Weymark …

characterized by a negative redistribution of resources from poor to rich, raising concerns about the future of low incomes in these …

conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for …. At an aggregate level, a rise in redistribution induces a compression effect on the distribution of pre-tax returns. In … the financial market, I identify general equilibrium trickle-up externalities that provide a force for more redistribution …

conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for …. At an aggregate level, a rise in redistribution induces a compression effect on the distribution of pre-tax returns. In … the financial market, I identify general equilibrium trickle-up externalities that provide a force for more redistribution …

We introduce a skewness-based approach to measure tax progression and demand for redistribution. We provide a political … redistribution (Meltzer and Richard, 1981) and the Prospect Of Upward Mobility (POUM) mechanism (Benabou and Ok, 2001), as well as … enough that the observed redistribution (or lack thereof) could be consistent with the POUM hypothesis, more recent periods …