taxation, commodity taxation, tax expenditures, externalities, public goods, capital income and wealth taxation, social … security and retirement savings, estate and gift taxation, and transfer programs. It also explores welfare criteria and … examines how their consideration enables the normative analysis of the taxation of families, heterogeneous preferences, and tax …

efficiency with a relevant amount of tax revenues and social expenditures. They obviously obtain very high redistribution, above … 15 points. Most of the countries considered show an intermediate level of redistribution (between 7 and 12 points), but … countries show a very low level of redistribution, below 7 points. Interestingly, they vary in the level of tax burden and of …

are caused by ex-ante differences in lifeexpectancy. However, these pension reforms may themselves induce redistribution …

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 …