Moreno-Ternero, Juan D.Martínez, Ricardo2022-08-252022-08-252022-09Economics Letters 218 (2022), 11075610.1016/j.econlet.2022.110756http://hdl.handle.net/10433/14262Identificador de proyecto: PID2020-115011GB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033; PID2020-114309GB-I00 (funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033); Junta de Andalucía through grants P18-FR- 2933 and A-SEJ-14-UGR20.We explore the implications of three basic and intuitive axioms for income redistribution problems: equal treatment of equals, additivity and stability. We show that the combination of the three axioms characterizes two focal and polar rules: laissez-faire and full redistribution.application/pdfenAttribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/Redistribution problemsLaissez-faireFull redistributionEqual treatment of equalsAdditivityStabilityjournal articleopen access