This paper reviews some of the central issues that arise in thinking about the motives for,
politics of, constraints on and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the …

First published in 1986, this book explores the areas of income distribution and welfare.
Analyzing Redistribution Policies developed appropriate techniques to analyze the extent …

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The 1970s and 1980s brought renewed interest, both theoretic and empirical, in matters of
income distribution and redistribution. How may we evaluate trends in income distribution …

This series is devoted to books by qualified scholars that deal with national or international
themes from a variety of social science disciplines. It is intended to serve as a bridge of …

In many countries, equality of political rights, including the right to vote over taxes and
transfers, goes along with substantial inequality of economic conditions. This observation …

We survey the literature on preferences for redistribution. We discuss different ways the
literature has measured these preferences and review literature on the different …

There are many well-developed theories that explain why governments redistribute income,
but very few can explain why this often is done in a socially inefficient form. In the theory we …

IN THE literature of the West, concepts and models of social policy are as diverse as
contemporary concepts of poverty. Historically, the two have indeed had much in common …

This article revisits the relationship between inequality and redistribution in a panel of
advanced OECD countries. Using panel data methods that hold constant a variety of …