The effect of a widening of the distribution of income upon society's choice of the amount of redistribution is a … balancing of two opposing forces: the increase in redistribution in response to the increased ratio of mean to median income and …

of a public pension system: the contribution rate and its degree of redistribution. The pension regime affects … fundamental components of a public pension system: the contribution rate and its degree of redistribution. The pension regime …

Redistribution programs are constrained because those not working may be either unable to work, voluntarily unemployed …

, 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-intentioned policymakers can do; the continued (perhaps increased … redistribution may plausibly generate efficiency gains, the likelihood that some trade-off between equity and efficiency is …

redistribution is no business of the law. This efficiency-only doctrine is not that redistribution is unworthy as a social objective … initial distortion arising from redistribution pre se, through taxation or through law, and an additional distortion all its … inapplicable to most of what is commonly thought of as redistributive law. Redistribution is best supplied by a combination of law …

impost on budgets. The paper compares Canada and Australia in this framework, showing that there are similarities and …