full control (if only effort matters). Fairness requires to compensate individuals for differences in well-being caused by … the general properties of fair and efficient tax-benefit schemes. Next, we study two special cases income taxation and … tagging in detail. Finally, we derive testable conditions for the general case and discuss the empirical implementation. …

and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential usefulness of apparently inefficient policy … instruments in overcoming the self-selection constraints on redistribution and limiting the damage that ill …, while there are circumstances in which redistribution may plausibly generate efficiency gains, the likelihood that some …

full control (if only effort matters). Fairness requires to compensate individuals for differences in well-being caused by … the general properties of fair and efficient tax-benefi t schemes. Next, we study two special cases income taxation and … tagging in detail. Finally, we derive testable conditions for the general case and discuss the empirical implementation …

-enhancing, direct redistribution with taxes and transfers itself does not improve productivity, once other human capital formation …

Government redistribution is increasingly important in today's world. The effect of income distribution on … industrialization and growth, and the causes of income redistribution have been studied in the contemporary literature. The normative … significance of income redistribution, however, which is the focus of this paper, has been rarely studied. In this paper we analyze …