We introduce a skewness-based approach to measure tax progression and demand for redistribution. We provide a political … economy foundation for a novel measure of skewness by expressing key properties of the classical model of voting over income … redistribution (Meltzer and Richard, 1981) and the Prospect Of Upward Mobility (POUM) mechanism (Benabou and Ok, 2001), as well as …

One prominent strand of the new growth theory has identified the political process as a potential channel to link high … inequality to lower long-term growth. Several authors have argued that higher inequality causes higher demand for redistribution …, which leads to greater redistribution and higher taxes, and which is in turn harmful to growth. This article addresses the …

comparison of two treatments with and without the ex post redistribution stage in which both players may voluntarily transfer …

We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … is affected by redistribution. We estimate utility weights for the different sources of demand for redistribution, with …

We use a highly-controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases on redistribution …-personal decreases create dissatisfaction for an individual, that person may support redistribution policies that compensate him or her … experience decreasing wages. While many studies examine the effect of income inequality on redistribution decisions, this is the …

We look at the effect of domestic redistribution policy on offshoring in an asymmetric two country model of … monopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and occupational choice. The redistribution scheme is modeled by a combination of a … progressive income tax and a lump-sum transfer. We find that the redistribution scheme lowers the degree of globalization measured …