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This work examines the distribution of welfare in a population and its redistribution by the government. Motivated by the large and growing role of the public sector - and with it the redistributive potential - this publication makes three distinct contributions to show ways that decision-makers can glean necessary information about distributional situations. As such, this work offers both aggregated welfare analyses, which cover public activities as completely as possible (chapters "Public Income Redistribution in Switzerland" and "The Distribution of Leisure Time Across Countries and Over Time"), as well as a detailed evaluation of the welfare impact of a single policy intervention (chapter "The Example of India´s National Workfare Scheme") that precisely captures selected outcomes.

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Monika Engler teaches economics and statistics at the University for Applied Sciences (HTW) in Chur, Switzerland, and is project leader at the Center for Economic Policy Research at HTW. Her research interests lie in the fields of sustainable public finances and social security systems, as well as in the redistributive effects of welfare states.

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