redistribution in a comparative setting. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine household market inequality …, redistribution from transfers and taxes, and the underlying social programs that drive the changes, for 20 countries from the mid … programs. We focus on changes in fiscal redistribution of 13 different social programs and taxes. We observe a sizeable …

the demand for redistribution in the 2000's. We identify which are the individual characteristics and the contextual … variables that contribute the most in predicting the observed different support for redistribution. We model demand for … redistribution in a multilevel framework that provides a natural and suitable model for accounting different levels of variation, at …

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …

This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … than in 2006 in transition countries. Support for redistribution toward specific groups is highest for the disabled and the … state group of transition countries. Regarding redistribution to specific groups, self-interest appears to be an important …

their effort, it will chose low redistribution and low taxes. In equilibrium effort will be high, the role of luck limited …

-Saxon countries. For Eastern Europe, our results are less definite. Looking at the impact of the tax and benefit schemes in the EU, it …

This paper investigates the effect of ethnolinguistic conflict on redistribution. The analysis focuses on the conflict … linguistic diversity is a better predictor of redistribution than linguistic polarization. We also find that incorporating …

their effort, it will choose low redistribution and low taxes. In equilibrium, effort will be high, the role of luck limited …